Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. List of Illustrations XIII
5. Introduction: Stories and Selves 1
6. 1. The Perfect Sexes of Paradise 16
7. 2. The Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex 40
8. 3. The Hyena’s Unclean Sex: Beasts, Bestiaries, and Jewish Communities 70
9. 4. Sex and Order in Natural Philosophy and Law 102
10. 5. The Correction of Nature: Sex and the Science of Surgery 134
11. 6. The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Alchemy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance 163
12. Conclusion: Tension and Tenses 201
13. Notes 209
14. Bibliography 269
15. Index 303