The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200-1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define the human so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex and casts a new light on a complex and often contradictory past. She is joined by fellow historian Roland Betancourt.
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Leah DeVun is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She is the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages and was coeditor of Trans*historicities (2018), an issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Roland Betancourt is Professor of Art History at the University of California Irvine. His most recent books are Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages, and Performing the Gospels in Byzantium: Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy.
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