Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns Contributor(s): Traub, Valerie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812223896 ISBN-13: 9780812223897 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - General |
Dewey: 820.935 |
Series: Haney Foundation |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 480 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history. Her answers offer interdisciplinary strategies for confronting the difficulties of making sexual knowledge. Based on the premise that producing sexual knowledge is difficult because sex itself is often inscrutable, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns leverages the notions of opacity and impasse to explore barriers to knowledge about sex in the past. Traub argues that the obstacles in making sexual history can illuminate the difficulty of knowing sexuality. She also argues that these impediments themselves can be adopted as a guiding principle of historiography: sex may be good to think with, not because it permits us access but because it doesn't. |