On knowing nature's syntax: Preliminary cisness, victorian physiology and George Eliot.
As a trans intervention in Victorian studies and historical extension of recent work in trans studies, this article argues that the theorisation of natural laws in mid‐nineteenth century, British physiology produces a 'preliminary cisness' in Victorian sexual science. By then juxtaposing George Elio...
| Published in: | Gender & History Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 151 - 167 |
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