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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions -- I. THEORIES OF REPRODUCTION -- Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum -- Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata -- 2. BOUNDARIES OF SEX AND GENDER -- Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture -- Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine -- The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or, The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture -- 3. FEMALE GENEALOGIES -- Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain -- Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I -- 4. THE POLITICS OF INHERITANCE -- In Search of the Origins of Medicine: EgyptianWisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians -- The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia -- Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage -- Index