Race Queer Queens

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This expansive volume examines the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and other formations of identity in early modern representations of queens.

Race/Queer/Queens is a new intervention into the well-established field of queenship and royalty studies. Queens/(queans) are at once the epitome of royal power and the exemplum of gendered disenfranchisement. The essays in this volume address the interlocking methodologies of premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer and trans theory to shed light on how gendered negotiations of power, reproductive politics, and embodied performance are determined by and inscribed within a hierarchy of gender, race, class, religion, nationhood, and sexuality. Ranging across early modern drama, poetry, and prose by the likes of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Lucy Hutchinson, and Hester Pulter, the essays in Race/Queer/Queens offer new intersectional approaches to studies of early modern history, genealogy, embodiment, and the nation, including model methodologies and directions for future scholarship.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780866988964
Published: September 2026

Number of pages: 160
Width: 152 mm
Height: 229 mm
Depth: 10 mm

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US