Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts, ImagesThis exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago: that the 'natural' phenomena of sex, gender and subjectivity are constructed rather than essentially biological or fixed. The essays rise to the challenge of producing a new post Foucaultian history of gender and sexuality. All of them have been influenced by feminism, and several deal with women not