Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Bonnie Wheeler
Routledge, Nov 17, 2015 - Literary Criticism - 408 pages
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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Becoming and Unbecoming
Producing the Masculine Corpus
Becoming Christian Becoming Male?
Children and Sex in the AngloSaxon Penitentials
Ironic Intertextuality and the Readers Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in
Castration Identity
Abelards Castration and Confession
Abelards Blissful Castration
Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal
Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval
Wolf
Becoming in human C 1400
Inventing with
The Pardoner Veiled and Unveiled
Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature
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English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. His publications include Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, and The Postcolonial Middle Ages. Bonnie Wheeler directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She is series editor of The New Middle Ages and edits the journal Arthuriana.

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