Acknowledgments

Introduction Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions

Valeria Finucci

Theories of Reproduction

Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum

Elizabeth A. Clark

Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata

Valeria Finucci

Boundaries of Sex and Gender

Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture

Dale B. Martin

Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine

Gianna Pomata

The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or, The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture

Valerie Traub

Female Genealogies

Genealogies in Crisis: Maria de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Marina Scordilis Brownlee

Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I

Maureen Quilligan

The Politics of Inheritance

In Search of the Origins of Medicine: Egyptian Wisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians

Nancy G. Siraisi

The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia

Kevin Brownlee

Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage

Peter Stallybrass

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