Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages 1st Edition by Sharon Farmer, Carol Braun Pasternack ISBN ‎ 978-0816638949 0816638942

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ISBN 10:  0816638942

ISBN 13: 978-0816638949

Author: Sharon Farmer, Carol Braun Pasternack

Exposes complex intersections between genders and other identities in medieval cultures.

Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about “men” and “women” of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender-in the Middle Ages no less than now-intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors show that medieval identities emerged through shifting paradigms-that fluidity, conflict, and contingency characterized not only gender, but also sexuality, social status, and religion. This view emerges through essays that delve into a wide variety of cultures and draw on a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Scholars in the fields of history as well as literary and religious studies consider gendered hierarchies in western Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic areas of the medieval world.

Contributors: Daniel Boyarin, U of California, Berkeley; Ruth Mazo Karras, U of Minnesota; Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State U; Martha Newman, U of Texas; Kathryn M. Ringrose, U of California, San Diego; Elizabeth Robertson, U of Colorado; Everett Rowson, U of Pennsylvania; Michael Uebel, U of Kentucky; Ulrike Wiethaus, Wake Forest U.

Table of contents: 

Part I. Differing Cultures, Differing Possibilities
On the History of the Early Phallus

Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad

Reconfiguring the Prophet Daniel: Gender, Sanctity, and Castration in Byzantium

Negotiating Gender in Anglo-Saxon England

Part II. Discourses of Domination
Male Friendship and the Suspicion of Sodomy in Twelfth-Century France

Crucified by the Virtues: Monks, Lay Brothers, and Women in Thirteenth-Century Cistercian Saints’ Lives

“Because the Other Is a Poor Woman She Shall Be Called His Wench”: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status in Late Medieval England

Re-Orienting Desire: Writing on Gender Trouble in Fourteenth-Century Egypt

Part III. Individual Choices, Strategies of Resistance
Manual Labor, Begging, and Conflicting Gender Expectations in Thirteenth-Century Paris

Female Homoerotic Discourse and Religion in Medieval Germanic Culture

Nonviolent Christianity and the Strangeness of Female Power in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale

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