Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity / edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: the guarded body / Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub -- "I will make Mary male": pieties of the body and gender transformation of Christian women in late antiquity / Elizabeth Castelli -- The categorization of gender and sexual irregularity in medieval Arabic vice lists / Everett K. Rowson -- Fetishizing gender: constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe / Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass -- London's Sapphists: from three sexes to four genders in the making of modern culture / Randolph Trumbach -- The guilty pleasures of female theatrical cross-dressing and the autobiography of Charlotte Clarke / Kristina Straub -- D'Eon returns to France: gender and power in 1777 / Gary Kates -- "Sans les femmes, qu'est-ce qui nous resterait?": gender and transgression in bohemian Montmartre / Michael Wilson -- The chic of Araby: transvestism, transsexualism and the erotics of cultural appropriation / Marjorie Garber -- Transsexualism: reflections on the persistence of gender and the mutability of sex / Judith Shapiro -- The empire strikes back: a posttranssexual manifesto / Sandy Stone -- The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure: the (dis)articulations of Black widow / Valerie Traub -- "Lessons" from "nature": gender ideology and sexual ambiguity in biology / Bonnie B. Spanier -- Misreading sodomy: a critique of the classification of "homosexuals" in federal Equal Protection Law / Janet E. Halley.