{"product_id":"9780226835006-glorious-bodies","title":"Glorious Bodies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrans Theology and Renaissance Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical innovation by locating a cultural imaginary of transition in the religious writing of the English Renaissance. Marking a major intervention in early modern gender studies, \u003ci\u003eGlorious Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e insists that transition \u003ci\u003ehappened\u003c\/i\u003e, both socially and surgically, hundreds of years before the nineteenth-century advent of sexology. Pairing literary texts by Shakespeare, Webster, Donne, and Milton with a broad range of primary sources, Gordon examines the religious tropes available to early modern subjects for imagining how gender could change. From George Herbert’s invaginated Jesus and Milton’s gestational Adam to the ungendered “glorious body” of the resurrection, early modern theology offers a rich conceptual reservoir of trans imagery.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In uncovering early modern trans theology, \u003ci\u003eGlorious Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e mounts a critique of the broad consensus that secularism is a necessary precondition for trans life, while also combating contemporary transphobia and the right-wing Christian culture war seeking to criminalize transition. Developing a rehabilitative account of theology’s value for positing trans lifeworlds, this book leverages premodern religion to imagine a postsecular transness in the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41786292666465,"sku":"9780226835006","price":27.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29875716.jpg?v=1740504837","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226835006-glorious-bodies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}