The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Queer articulations - Thomas Alan King - Google Books

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The queer man's mode of embodiment--his gestural and vocal style, his posture and gait, his occupation of space--remembers a political history. To gesture with the elbow held close to the body, to affect a courtly lisp, or to set an arm akimbo with the…