"[This book's] ensemble of motifs is not simply cast in currently fashionable psychoanalytical language. It displays a wide array of critical perspectives yet a homogeneity of viewpoints and ideological bents occur through its disparate contributions. A truly unified piece of scholarship."-- Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, author of "The Worlds of Petrarch"

Valeria Finucci and Kevin Brownlee, eds.

Introduction: Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions / Valeria Finucci
1. Theories of Reproduction
Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum / Elizabeth A. Clark
Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata / Valeria Finucci
2. Boundaries of Sex and Gender
Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture / Dale B. Martin
Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine / Gianna Pomata
The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture / Valerie Traub
3. Female Genealogies
Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain / Marina Scordilis Brownlee
Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I / Maureen Quilligan
4. The Politics of Inheritance
In Search of the Origins of Medicine: Egyptian Wisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians / Nancy G. Siraisi
The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia / Kevin Brownlee
Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage / Peter Stallybrass
Index