Becoming Male In The Middle Ages

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Combining critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, the essays explore the relationship between Christian and masculine identity; children, penance, and sexuality; heroism, castration, and eunuchry; education; the relationship between male and animal bodies; discipline and gender; Chaucer; transvestism and knighthood; drag and blackface; contemporary identity theory; and other scholarly subjects.
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Overview

Combining critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, the essays explore the relationship between Christian and masculine identity; children, penance, and sexuality; heroism, castration, and eunuchry; education; the relationship between male and animal bodies; discipline and gender; Chaucer; transvestism and knighthood; drag and blackface; contemporary identity theory; and other scholarly subjects.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780815337706
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication date: 5/4/2000
  • Series: New Middle Ages Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 412
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Table of Contents

Becoming and Unbecoming
Body Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus 3
Becoming Christian, Becoming Male? 21
Where the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials 43
Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius 67
Abelard and (Re)Writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization 87
Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession 107
Abelard's Blissful Castration 129
Eunuchs Who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism 151
Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities 187
Wolf Man 203
Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 219
Erotic Discipline...or "Tee Hee, I Like My Boys to Be Girls": Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale 245
The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled 261
Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature 279
The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind 303
Outlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities 321
Normative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount 349
On Becoming-Male 367
Contributors 385
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