Becoming Male in the Middle AgesJeffrey Jerome Cohen, Bonnie Wheeler 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. |
Contents
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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