The Shape of Sex : Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200-1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define "the human" so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

• | : Leah DeVun (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University)
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0231195508
• | ISBN-13: 9780231195508