“Changed … into the Fashion of Man” The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23403449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen M Brown (0000-0003-4807-0633) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Pages | 39-53 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Devil's Lane (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112436.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2500592733 |
| ISBN | 9780195112436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This chapter discusses the gender identity of Thomas Hall and how it stirred controversy among the residents of Warraskoyack, Virginia, a small English settlement. It explains that Hall's case presents a nonetheless richly detailed glimpse of an early modern community's response to gender transgression, exposing to view a multiplicity of popular beliefs about sexual difference and the variety of uses to which they could be put by groups of people with different stakes in the social order. The Hall case not only provides documentary evidence of maleness and femaleness, but offers an opportunity to reconstruct what people might call “beliefs-in-action.” Hall's case also offers a unique chance to compare popular concepts of sexual difference. The chapter discusses how Hall was denied the right to choose a single identity—a marked departure from the usual European treatment of hermaphrodites.
Business · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Settlement (finance) · Sexual difference · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |