Gender and difference in the Middle Ages /
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. Respon...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2003.
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Colección: | Medieval cultures ;
v. 32. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the history of the early phallus / Daniel Boyarin
- Gender irregularity as entertainment: institutionalized transvestism at the Caliphal Court in medieval Baghdad / Everett K. Rowson
- Reconfiguring the prophet Daniel: gender, sanctity, and castration in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose
- Negotiating gender in Anglo-Saxon England / Carol Braun Pasternack
- Male friendship and the suspicion of sodomy in twelfth-century France / Mathew S. Kuefler
- Crucified by the virtues: monks, lay brothers, and women in the thirteenth-century Cistercian saints' lives / Martha G. Newman
- "Because the other is a poor woman she shall be called his wench": gender, sexuality, and social status in late medieval England / Ruth Mazo Karras
- Re-orienting desire: writing on gender trouble in fourteenth-century Egypt / Michael Uebel
- Manual labor, begging, and conflicting gender expectations in thirteenth-century Paris / Sharon Farmer
- Female homoerotic discourse and religion in medieval Germanic culture / Ulrike Wiethaus
- Nonviolent Christianity and the strangeness of female power in Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of law's tale / Elizabeth Robertson.