Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Stories and Selves
1. The Perfect Sexes of Paradise
2. The Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex
3. The Hyena's Unclean Sex: Beasts, Bestiaries, and Jewish Communities
4. Sex and Order in Natural Philosophy and Law
5. The Correction of Nature: Sex and the Science of Surgery
6. The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Alchemy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
Conclusion: Tension and Tenses
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Leah DeVun is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. DeVun is the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages (Columbia, 2009) and was coeditor of Trans*historicities (2018), an issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.