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Heterosexuality and its perils. Greensickness and Shakespeare / Jessica C. Murphy -- 'For me, I am the mistress of my fate' : Lucrece, rape culture and feminist political activism / Kay Stanton -- Intersectional sex. Sex/ecology : madness in method / Sharon O'Dair -- Crip sexualities and Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Allison P. Hobgood -- Protestantism, marriage and asexuality in Shakespeare / Melissa E. Sanchez -- Children's metamorphoses : Ovid, Shakespeare, sex and childhood / Kate Chedgzoy -- 'Live, and beget a happy race of kings' : Richard III, race and homonationalism / Urvashi Chakravarty -- Queer Shakespeares. Sex in the sonnets : the boy and dishonourable passions of the past / Goran Stanivukovic -- When Coriolanus was hot : reading for homoeroticism across time / Huw Griffiths -- Queer eye for the not so straight guy : ocular excesses and erotic gazes in The two noble kinsmen / Jennifer Drouin -- Trans Shakespeares. 'Bless thee bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated' : Gender identity and transformation in Shakespeare / Kathleen E. McLuskie -- A woman's prick : trans technogenesis in Sonnet 20 / Colby Gordon. "Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex, challenging readers to consider Shakespeare's texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies. It takes as its premise that gender and sexuality studies are key to any interpretation of Shakespeare, be it his texts and their historical contexts, contemporary stage and cinematic productions, or adaptations from the Restoration to the present day. Approaching 'sex' from four main perspectives- heterosexuality, third-wave intersectional feminism, queer studies and trans studies - this book tackles a number of hot topics for both Shakespearean scholars and the public at large, such as medical science, rape culture, the environment, disability, religion, childhood sexuality, race, homoeroticism and trans bodies. The 12 essays range across Shakespeare's poems and plays, including the Sonnets and The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Richard III, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Encouraged to push the envelope, contributors to this essay collection open new avenues of inquiry for the study of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare"--
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