The authors examine the link between identity and power in recent controversies over gender-inclusive language. Their analysis then focuses on two case-studies: the place of hermaphroditism in early modern Spanish medicine and gender sub-cultures in 1920s Berlin. These case-studies illuminate how struggles over language are central to broader political conflicts over identity, belonging, and the maintenance of the gender binary.
A group of French historians attempts a possible history of Italy for the first time in many years. The book's point of departure is the exhaustion of the national history framework, based on a unified reading of the history of the peninsula between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century. Breaking with this chronology and stopping at the eve of the unification process, this book focuses on the plurality of << Italies >> between the 13th and 19th centuries and on the complexity of the political, social and cultural spaces that encompass them.
The article discusses gender in the context of contemporary social sciences, particularly studies of family and kinship. Drawing on ethnographic contexts and debates about same-sex parenting, queer families, and non-binary subjectivities, it reflects on how proliferating identities challenge analytical frameworks. This contribution intends to show how plural << genders >> can help scholars trace the ongoing transformations of intimacy, family relations, and the kinship structures that organize contemporary social life.
The article focuses on medieval Europe to show how gender pluralization enriches historical interpretation. By revisiting cross-dressing saints, eunuchs at court, and medical writings on hermaphroditism, it highlight the instability of gender categories in medieval culture. These examples reveal that multiple and relational forms of gender existed long before modern debates, complicating the idea of fixed binaries and offering new ways to think about medieval identity and power.
This article interrogates the transformations of gender history through the lens of trans history. It tackles first the way trans history has transformed not only some of the categories of gender history but also the positionality of the historian. It then examines the question of the archive in trans histories and whether this historical approach can open the door to new ways of relating to historical sources.
