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Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Thinking Sex
with the
Early Moderns
Valerie Traub
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA
A volume in the Haney Foundation Series, established in 1961 with the generous support of Dr. John Louis Haney.
Copyright © 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Traub, Valerie, author.
Thinking sex with the early moderns / Valerie Traub.
pages cm.— (Haney Foundation series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8122-4729-9
1. Sex in literature. 2. English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 3. Sex (Psychology)—History—16th century. 4. Sex (Psychology)—History—17th century. 5. Gender identity—England—History—16th century. 6. Gender identity—England—History—17th century. 7. Language and sex—History. 8. Renaissance—England. I. Title. II. Series:
Haney Foundation series.
PR428.S48T73 2016
820.9′353809031—dc23
2015017216
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Thinking Sex: Knowledge, Opacity, History
Part I. Making the History of Sexuality
Chapter 2. Friendship’s Loss: Alan Bray’s Making of History
Chapter 3. The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies
Chapter 4. The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography
Part II. Scenes of Instruction; or, Early Modern Sex Acts
Chapter 6. Sex in the Interdisciplines
Part III. The Stakes of Gender
Chapter 9. The Sign of the Lesbian
Chapter 10. Sex Ed; or, Teach Me Tonight
PREFACE
This book was written during a particular moment in U.S. cultural and political history—after the initial efflorescence of academic gay/lesbian/queer studies and during a socially conservative and sex-negative political backlash that extended from the media and medicine to schools and the arts. This was a time of severe social and discursive contradiction around sex, with sex phobia contending in equal measure with the sex saturation of a celebrity-obsessed culture. It began—although I did not know it at the time—in conversations with Mark Schoenfield at Vanderbilt University, who gamely agreed to read all of Shakespeare’s sonnets with me. A turning point came when Julie Crawford suggested that an early version of “The Joys of Martha Joyless” allegorized my own scholarly