Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book combines critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory and cultural studies and explores the relationship between Christian and masculine identity, between male and animal bodies, transvestism and knighthood and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsBecoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie WheelerBody Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus D. Vance SmithBecoming Christian! Becoming Male? Steven F. KrugerWhere the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials Allen J. FrantzenIronic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius David TownsendAbelard and (Re)writing the Male Body: Castration! Identity! and Remasculinization Martin IrvineOrigenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession Bonnie WheelerAbelard's Blissful Castration Yves FerroulEunuchs who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism Elliot R. WolfsonSharing Wine! Women! and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities Ruth Mazo KarrasWolf Man Leslie Dunton-DownerGowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 Jeffrey Jerome CohenErotic Discipline...Or "Tee Hee! I like my boys to be girls": Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale Glenn BurgerThe Pardoner! Veiled and Unveiled Robert S. SturgesTransvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature Ad PutterThe Vicious Guise: Effeminacy! Sodomy! and Mankind Garrett P. J. EppOutlaw Masculinities: Drag! Blackface! and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities Claire SponslerNormative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount R. James GoldsteinOn Becoming-Male Michael Uebel ...

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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 MiddleAges, and The Postcolonial Middle Ages.*Bonnie Wheeler directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She is series editor of *The NewMiddle Ages and edits the journal Arthuriana.*

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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zusammenfassung
This book combines critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory and cultural studies and explores the relationship between Christian and masculine identity, between male and animal bodies, transvestism and knighthood and more.

Inhalt

Contents

Becoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler

Body Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus D. Vance Smith

Becoming Christian, Becoming Male? Steven F. Kruger

Where the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials Allen J. Frantzen

Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius David Townsend

Abelard and (Re)writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization Martin Irvine

Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession Bonnie Wheeler

Abelard's Blissful Castration Yves Ferroul

Eunuchs who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism Elliot R. Wolfson

Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities Ruth Mazo Karras

Wolf Man Leslie Dunton-Downer

Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Erotic Discipline...Or "Tee Hee, I like my boys to be girls": Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale Glenn Burger

The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled Robert S. Sturges

Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature Ad Putter

The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind Garrett P. J. Epp

Outlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities Claire Sponsler

Normative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount R. James Goldstein

On Becoming-Male Michael Uebel