Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Valerie Traub
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.
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ISBN | 9780812223897 |
Genre | LGBT Studies/Social Sciences |
Publication Date | 05-Dec-16 |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Format | Paperback |
No. of Pages | 480 |
Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Studies |
Language | English |
Rating | Good |
BookID | 13135 |