Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Benefits of Being Trans Historical 1
5. Part I. Archives: Revisiting Law and Medicine
6. 1. Mapping the Borders of Sex 27
7. 2. Elenx de Céspedes: Indeterminate Genders in the Spanish Inquisition 42
8. 3. The Case of Marin le Marcis 68
9. 4. The Transgender Turn: Eleanor 95
10. 5. Wojciech of Poznań and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550–1561 114
11. Part II. Frameworks: Representing Early Trans Lives
12. 6. Recognizing Wilgefortis 133
13. 7. Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire 160
14. 8. Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness 178
15. 9. Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena’s Deeds of Alexander the Great 207
16. Part III. Interventions: Critical Trans Methodologies
17. 10. Visualizing the Trans-Animal Body: The Hyena in Medieval Bestiar 235
18. 11. Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers 267
19. 12. Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium? 297
20. 13. Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown 322
21. 14. Laid Open: Examining Genders in Early America 350
22. Epilogue: Against Consensus 366
23. Contributors 379
24. Index 385