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Author: Cynthia Nazarian

Dr. Cynthia Nazarian is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University and a Public Voices Fellow. She is the author of Love’s Wounds: Violence and The Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe.
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How Renaissance-Era Sexism Connects the Fights for Gender Equality and Trans Liberation

Cynthia Nazarian

Misogyny and anxious masculinity add fuel to political attempts to hold back transgender rights—and looking through the lens of Renaissance beliefs brings some of those remarkably persistent sexist attitudes into clear view.

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