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Bodies Of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender In The Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano
Bodies Of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender In The Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano
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This dissertation considers the genres of historiography, romance, hagiography, Chaucerian poetry, and court transcripts. While there are no extant manuscripts depicting transgender-like people’s accounts of themselves, literature of the Middle Ages is replete with fictionalized depictions of ambiguously or transgressively gendered individuals who are meant to symbolize or represent something other than themselves. By investigating how a variety of genres depicts sensationalized and transgressively gendered embodiments, I examine the presentation of transgender-like subjectivity as a manipulation of rhetoric. Viviane Namaste critiques theory such as Marjorie Garber’s Vested Interests, claiming that it reduces the transvestite figure to a rhetorical trope …
A Response: Queer Medievalism: Why And Whither? , Sarah Salih
A Response: Queer Medievalism: Why And Whither? , Sarah Salih
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Becoming (Queer) Medieval: Queer Methodologies In Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? , Michael O'Rourke
Becoming (Queer) Medieval: Queer Methodologies In Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? , Michael O'Rourke
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Queering Virginity , Lisa Weston
Queering Virginity , Lisa Weston
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Que(E)Rying Mongols , Noreen Giffney
Que(E)Rying Mongols , Noreen Giffney
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.