Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns Traub ValeriePaperback
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns Traub ValeriePaperback What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these…
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Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns Traub ValeriePaperback
What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? 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. How, when, and why does sex become history?
Traub argues that the obstacles in making sexual history can illuminate the difficulty of knowing sexuality. 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. She also argues that these impediments themselves can be adopted as a guiding