Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

by Cohen,Jeffrey Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780815337706
• ISBN10: 0815337701
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Becoming and Unbecoming	vii
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Bonnie Wheeler
Body Doubles: Producing The Masculine Corpus	3	(18)
D. Vance Smith
Becoming Christian, Becoming Male?	21	(22)
Steven F. Kruger
Where The Boys are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-saxon Penitentials	43	(24)
Allen J. Frantzen
Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius	67	(20)
David Townsend
Abelard and (RE) Writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization	87	(20)
Martin Irvine
Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession	107	(22)
Bonnie Wheeler
Abelard's Blissful Castration	129	(22)
Yves Ferroul
Eunuchs Who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism	151	(36)
Elliot R. Wolfson
Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval Euroean Universities	187	(16)
Ruth Mazo Karras
Wolf Man	203	(16)
Leslie Dunton-Downer
Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400	219	(26)
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	245	(16)
Glenn Burger
The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled	261	(18)
Robert S. Sturges
Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature	279	(24)
Ad Putter
The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind	303	(18)
Garrett P. J. Epp
Outlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities	321	(28)
Claire Sponsler
Normative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount	349	(18)
R. James Goldstein
On Becoming-Male	367	(18)
Michael Uebel
Contributors	385