Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
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. Fantzen --Ironic intertextuality and the reader's resistance to heroic masculinity in the Waltharius /David Townsend --Abelard and rewriting 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 and 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 --Pardoner, veiled and unveiled /Robert S. Sturges --Transvestite knights in medieval life and literature /Ad Putter --Viscious guise : effeminacy, sodomy, and mankind /Garrett P. J. Epp --Outlaw masculinities : drag, blackface, and late medieval laboring class festivities /Claire Sponsler --Normative hetersexuality in history and theory : case of Sir David Lindsay of the mount /R. James Goldstein --Becoming male /Michael Uebel.