Thinking sex with the early moderns / Valerie Traub.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

xiii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking sex: knowledge, opacity, history -- Part I. Making the history of sexuality. Friendship's loss: Alan Bray's making of history -- The new unhistoricism in queer studies -- The present future of lesbian historiography -- Part II. Scenes of instruction; or, early modern sex acts. The joys of Martha Joyless: queer pedagogy and the (early modern) production of sexual knowledge -- Sex in the interdisciplines -- Talking sex -- Part III. The stakes of gender. Shakespeare's sex -- The sign of the lesbian -- Sex ed; or, teach me tonight.