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Bodies Of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender In The Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano Sep 2017

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 Sep 2003

A Response: Queer Medievalism: Why And Whither? , Sarah Salih

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Becoming (Queer) Medieval: Queer Methodologies In Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? , Michael O'Rourke Sep 2003

Becoming (Queer) Medieval: Queer Methodologies In Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? , Michael O'Rourke

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Queering Virginity , Lisa Weston Sep 2003

Queering Virginity , Lisa Weston

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Que(E)Rying Mongols , Noreen Giffney Sep 2003

Que(E)Rying Mongols , Noreen Giffney

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.