GENDER AND SEXUALITY
The Italian Invert
The Shape of Sex
Edited by Michael Rosenfeld with William A. Peniston
Leah DeVun
A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola
Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Translated by Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston
In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: in a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. The Italian Invert is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20489-7
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 CE. 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.
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20488-0
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19551-5
May 2022 256 pages 6 llus.
$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19550-8
2021 336 pages 40 illus.
The First Political Order
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
Howard Chiang
Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen
Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19097-8
$40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19466-2
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19096-1
2020 616 pages 125 illus,
2021 376 pages
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