First published in 1997. Most work in gender studies has focused on women. This volume brings together various forms of gender theory, especially feminist and queer theory, to explore how men made cultures and culture made men, in the Middle Ages.
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This book combines critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory and cultural studies and explores the relationship between Christian and masculine identity, between male and animal bodies, transvestism and knighthood and more.
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Contents

Becoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler

Body Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus D. Vance Smith

Becoming Christian, Becoming Male? Steven F. Kruger

Where the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials Allen J. Frantzen

Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius David Townsend

Abelard and (Re)writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization Martin Irvine

Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession Bonnie Wheeler

Abelard's Blissful Castration Yves Ferroul

Eunuchs who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism Elliot R. Wolfson

Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities Ruth Mazo Karras

Wolf Man Leslie Dunton-Downer

Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Erotic Discipline...Or "Tee Hee, I like my boys to be girls": Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale Glenn Burger

The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled Robert S. Sturges

Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature Ad Putter

The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind Garrett P. J. Epp

Outlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities Claire Sponsler

Normative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount R. James Goldstein

On Becoming-Male Michael Uebel

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780815337706
Publisert
1999-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
388

Biografisk notat

English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. His publications include Monster Theory:Reading Culture, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the MiddleAges, and The Postcolonial Middle Ages.Bonnie Wheeler directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She is series editor of The NewMiddle Ages and edits the journal Arthuriana.