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The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
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  • Title The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
  • Author Leah Devun
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Date 2021-05-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780231195515 / 0231195516
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex - Europe - History, Intersex people - Europe - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020030685
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.768

About the author

Leah DeVun is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. DeVun is the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages (Columbia, 2009) and was coeditor of Trans*historicities (2018), an issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
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