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Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are not organized in terms of modern definitions of homosexual and heterosexual.The presence of contemporary history can be felt throughout the volume, beginning with an investigat

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Prolepses: Queer/Early/Modern -- Part One. Past, Present -- 2. Always Already Queer (French) Theory -- 3. Undoing the Histories of Homosexuality -- 4. Queer Nation: Early/Modern France -- Part Two. Futures -- 5. Queer Spectrality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Touching on the Past -- Chapter One It Takes One to Know One: Lollards, Sodomites, and Their Accusers -- Chapter Two Good Vibrations: John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault -- Chapter Three Margery Kempe Answers Back -- Coda Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Foucault, and the Use of the Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere -- I. The subjunctive public sphere -- One Visibility at the Limits of Inclusion -- Two Autonomy and Conformity -- II. Practices of value -- Three The Citizen's Sexual Shadow -- Four Inseminating the Orient, Disseminating Identity -- Five Shelley's Heart -- Epilogue Beyond Tolerance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Language of the Tribe -- part 1 A World of Insult -- 1 The Shock of Insult -- 2 The Flight to the City -- 3 Friendship as a Way of Life -- 4 Sexuality and Professions -- 5 Family and ''Melancholy'' -- 6 The City and Conservative Discourse -- 7 To Tell or Not to Tell -- 8 Heterosexual Interpellation -- 9 The Subjected ''Soul'' -- 10 Caricature and Collective Insult -- 11 Inversions -- 12 On Sodomy -- 13 Subjectivity and Private Life -- 14 Existence Precedes Essence -- 15 Unrealizable Identity -- 16 Perturbations -- 17 The Individual and the Group -- part 2 Specters of Wilde -- 1 How ''Arrogant Pederasts'' Come into Being -- 2 An Unspeakable Vice -- 3 A Nation of Artists -- 4 Philosopher and Lover -- 5 Moral Contamination -- 6 The Truth of Masks -- 7 The Greeks against the Psychiatrists -- 8 The Democracy of Comrades -- 9 Margot-la-boulangère and the Baronne-aux-épingles -- 10 From Momentary Pleasures to Social Reform -- 11 The Will to Disturb -- 12 The ''Preoccupation with Homosexuality'' -- part 3 Michel Foucault's Heterotopias -- 1 Much More Beauty -- 2 From Night to the Light of Day -- 3 The Impulse to Escape -- 4 Homosexuality and Unreason -- 5 The Birth of Perversion -- 6 The Third Sex -- 7 Producing Subjects -- 8 Philosophy in the Closet -- 9 When Two Guys Hold Hands -- 10 Resistance and Counterdiscourse -- 11 Becoming Gay -- 12 Among Men -- 13 Making Di√erences -- Addendum: Hannah Arendt and ''Defamed Groups'' -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword The Butch Anthropologist Out in the Field -- Foreword On Being Different: An Appreciation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I : DRAG AND CAMP -- From the Appendix to Mother Camp, Field Methods (1972) -- Role Models (1972) -- Preface to the Phoenix Edition of Mother Camp (1979) -- Theater: Gay Anti-Church—More Notes on Camp (1992/1999) -- Dick(less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen: Lesbian Power and Representation in Gay Male Cherry Grove (1996) -- PART II : LESBIAN-FEMINISM -- High School Crack-up (1973) -- Marginal Woman/Marginal Academic (1973) -- The Personal Is Political: Consciousness Raising and Personal Change in the Women's Liberation Movement (with Shirley Walton; 1971) -- Excerpt from Womenfriends (with Shirley Walton; 1976) -- Will the Real Lesbian Community Please Stand Up? (1982/1998) -- PART III : BUTCH -- The Misunderstanding: Toward a More Precise Sexual Vocabulary (with Shirley Walton; 1984), -- The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman (1984) -- Beyond Freud, Ken, and Barbie (1986) -- My Butch Career: A Memoir (1996) -- PART IV: QUEER ANTHROPOLOGY -- DMS: The Outsider's Insider (1995) -- Too Queer for College: Notes on Homophobia (1987) -- An Open Letter to ''Manda Cesara'' (1984) -- Of Yams, Grinders, and Gays: The Anthropology of Homosexuality (1988) -- Lesbian and Gay Issues in Anthropology: Some Remarks to the Chairs of Anthropology Departments (1993) -- My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (1992) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- BOWERS V. HARDWICK in the Renaissance -- Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England -- The (In ) Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England -- Fraudomy.· Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello -- Practicing queer philology with Marguerite de Navarre: nationalism and the castigation of desire -- Erasmus's Tigress : the language of Friendship, pleasure and the renaissance letter -- John Bale and Early Tudor sodomy discourse -- "To serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, master of revels -- Into other arms: Amoret's evasion -- Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs -- The epistemology of expurgation: bacon and the masculine birth of time -- Pleasure and devotion: the body of Jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric -- My two dads: collaboration and the reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher -- Fighting women and loving men: Dryden's representation of Shakespeare in all for love -- New English Sodom -- Afterword -- Notes on contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Queering Iberia -- Saint Pe1agius, Ephebe and Martyr -- "Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer -- Queer Representation in the Arcipreste de Talavera, or The Maldezir de mugeres Is a Drag -- II Iberian Masculinities -- "Tanquam effeminatum": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade -- The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de buen amor -- Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia -- III Sources of Sodom -- The Poets of Sodom -- Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna -- Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual "Good Love" -- IV Normativity and Nationhood -- Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francese Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones -- "iA tierra, puto!": Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy -- "Tened por espejo su fin" Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenthand Sixteenth-Century Spain -- V The Body and the State -- Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina -- From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gendering the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain -- Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors