Oops, Thought DeVun was Done

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 10:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project I could have sworn I'd finished posting all the chapters of DeVun, but I went to start the next book and found this one still in queue. I have my second book on intersexuality all written up and will start posting it tomorrow. And the related podcast will come out this weekend. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #581g DeVun 2020 The Shape of Sex Chapter 6 About LHMP Full citation: DeVun, Leah. 2020. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-2311-9551-5 Chapter 6: The Jesus Hermaphrodite—Alchemy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance This chapter explores the use of hermaphroditic symbolism (mostly in the mythic “half-and-half” version) in alchemy and in religious symbolism around the figures of Christ and of Adam and Eve. The texts under consideration belong primarily to the 14th and 15th centuries. I’m going to skim this material a…