C Libby
Biographic Data
| ID | 2136831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Libby |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Libby |
| SIGNATURE | LIBBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0648-5032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reimagining Gender
The loathsome historical connections between gender categories and sexology have prompted scholars to argue that these terms need to be rethought, unmotivated, or even relinquished. However, rather than abandoning these tools of categorization, popular queer and trans culture has recently been depicted as undergoing a “taxonomical renaissance.” This article makes sense of this discrepancy by foregrounding the ongoing influence of the medieval rec…
Desiring Possibility
Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex
Journal Article Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Get access Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. 315. Paper $35.00. C. Libby C. Libby The Pennsylvania State University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Is…
Wondrous Bodies
This article places Marcella Althaus-Reid's theological reflection on popular devotion to the figure of Santa Librada in Argentina in conversation with scholarship on androgyny, nonbinary identity, and medieval gender-crossing saints. Tying together strands of medieval writing on wondrous bodies and contemporary articulations of nonbinary identity foregrounds how nonbinary embodiments destabilize modern conceptions of binary gender. Although I am…
Byzantine Intersectionality
Book review of Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages, by Roland Betancourt
Sympathy, Fear, Hate
A recent pastoral guide designed to help Christians better understand “transgender individuals and the broader ideological movement” took a seemingly bizarre turn when it urged readers to sympathize with radical feminist concerns about the safety of women and the increasing threat to their very identity. While the depiction of the dangerous trans subject as a potential source of injury is nothing new, the increasingly frequent evangelical relianc…
The Historian and the Sexologist
This article investigates how twentieth-century historians' reliance on pathologizing discourses about transvestism produced the distorted historical account of the premodern “transvestite saint.” The essay begins with a critical historiography aimed at unraveling the intertwined writings of historians and sexologists. European sexological writing on Christian saints rendered them little more than pathologized subjects stripped of their religious…
The Object of His Heart
This essay examines how attention to affect in mystic texts complicates notions of subjectivity by highlighting the relational effects of affect. Noting that recent pre‐modern scholarship has favored the history of emotion over affect studies, this essay turns instead to an investigation of the ways that affect can be discerned in historical and literary texts. Shifting attention to the way affect travels between author, text, and reader allows m…
Sympathy, Fear, Hate
A recent pastoral guide designed to help Christians better understand “transgender individuals and the broader ideological movement” took a seemingly bizarre turn when it urged readers to sympathize with radical feminist concerns about the safety of women and the increasing threat to their very identity. While the depiction of the dangerous trans subject as a potential source of injury is nothing new, the increasingly frequent evangelical relianc…
Wondrous Bodies
This article places Marcella Althaus-Reid's theological reflection on popular devotion to the figure of Santa Librada in Argentina in conversation with scholarship on androgyny, nonbinary identity, and medieval gender-crossing saints. Tying together strands of medieval writing on wondrous bodies and contemporary articulations of nonbinary identity foregrounds how nonbinary embodiments destabilize modern conceptions of binary gender. Although I am…
The Object of His Heart
This essay examines how attention to affect in mystic texts complicates notions of subjectivity by highlighting the relational effects of affect. Noting that recent pre‐modern scholarship has favored the history of emotion over affect studies, this essay turns instead to an investigation of the ways that affect can be discerned in historical and literary texts. Shifting attention to the way affect travels between author, text, and reader allows m…
The Historian and the Sexologist
This article investigates how twentieth-century historians' reliance on pathologizing discourses about transvestism produced the distorted historical account of the premodern “transvestite saint.” The essay begins with a critical historiography aimed at unraveling the intertwined writings of historians and sexologists. European sexological writing on Christian saints rendered them little more than pathologized subjects stripped of their religious…
Byzantine Intersectionality
Book review of Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages, by Roland Betancourt
Sympathy, Fear, Hate
A recent pastoral guide designed to help Christians better understand “transgender individuals and the broader ideological movement” took a seemingly bizarre turn when it urged readers to sympathize with radical feminist concerns about the safety of women and the increasing threat to their very identity. While the depiction of the dangerous trans subject as a potential source of injury is nothing new, the increasingly frequent evangelical relianc…
Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex
Journal Article Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Get access Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. 315. Paper $35.00. C. Libby C. Libby The Pennsylvania State University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Is…
Wondrous Bodies
This article places Marcella Althaus-Reid's theological reflection on popular devotion to the figure of Santa Librada in Argentina in conversation with scholarship on androgyny, nonbinary identity, and medieval gender-crossing saints. Tying together strands of medieval writing on wondrous bodies and contemporary articulations of nonbinary identity foregrounds how nonbinary embodiments destabilize modern conceptions of binary gender. Although I am…
Desiring Possibility
Reimagining Gender
The loathsome historical connections between gender categories and sexology have prompted scholars to argue that these terms need to be rethought, unmotivated, or even relinquished. However, rather than abandoning these tools of categorization, popular queer and trans culture has recently been depicted as undergoing a “taxonomical renaissance.” This article makes sense of this discrepancy by foregrounding the ongoing influence of the medieval rec…
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