The Shape of Sex: A history of nonbinary gender before modernity

Professor Leah DeVun of Rutgers University challenges the idea of nonbinary gender as a modern phenomenon, using her research from 200-1400 CE.

Leah DeVun is Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. DeVun is the author of many books and articles most recently, of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, and co-editor (with Zeb Tortorici) of Trans*historicities, a special issue of TSQ devoted to transgender history.