 | Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns Subjects: Sex in literature; English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Sex (Psychology) -- History -- 16th century; Sex (Psychology) -- History -- 17th century; Gender identity -- England -- History -- 16th century; Gender identity --; 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. Valerie Traub is Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England and Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama. |
