Grace Elisabeth Lavery

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Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques Grace Elisabeth Lavery
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period
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Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan Grace Elisabeth Lavery
How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics
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Ideas Podcast: Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Elisabeth Lavery

Pleasure and Efficacy Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie ... Read More

A collage of imagery from the covers of Chains of Love and Beauty, Byzantine Intersectionality, and Pleasure and Efficacy

In dialogue: Possibilities of queer histories In commemoration of Pride Month, we asked three of our authors the following question: What possibilities do queer histories open for charting a future toward liberation? Read More