Glorious Bodies

A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds.   In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical innovation by locating a cultural imaginary of transition in the religious writing of the English Renaissance. Marking a major intervention in early modern gender studies, Glorious Bodies insists that transition happened , both socially and surgical