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Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages / Sharon Farmer and Carol Braun Pasternack, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval Cultures
- Medieval Cultures ; v.Vol 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Social history.
- Sex differences--Philosophy--History.
- Sex differences.
- Sex role--History--To 1500.
- Sex role.
- Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. DIFFERING CULTURES, DIFFERING POSSIBILITIES; 1. On the History of the Early Phallus; 2. Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad; 3. Reconfiguring the Prophet Daniel: Gender, Sanctity, and Castration in Byzantium; 4. Negotiating Gender in Anglo-Saxon England; PART II. DISCOURSES OF DOMINATION; 5. Male Friendship and the Suspicion of Sodomy in Twelfth-Century France; 6. Crucified by the Virtues: Monks, Lay Brothers, and Women in Thirteenth-Century Cistercian Saints' Lives
- 7. "Because the Other Is a Poor Woman She Shall Be Called His Wench": Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status in Late Medieval England Ruth Mazo Karras8. Re-Orienting Desire: Writing on Gender Trouble in Fourteenth-Century Egypt; PART III. INDIVIDUAL CHOICES, STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE; 9. Manual Labor, Begging, and Conflicting Gender Expectations in Thirteenth-Century Paris; 10. Female Homoerotic Discourse and Religion in Medieval Germanic Culture; 11. Nonviolent Christianity and the Strangeness of Female Power in Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9337-4
- OCLC:
- 476095229
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb04421 hdl
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