| Description |
xxvii, 354 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Medieval cultures ; v. 32
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Medieval cultures ; v. 32.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Sex role -- History -- To 1500.
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Sex role. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Sex differences -- Philosophy -- History.
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Sex differences -- Philosophy. |
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Sex differences. |
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Farmer, Sharon A.
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Pasternack, Carol Braun.
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| ISBN |
0816638942 paperback alkaline paper |
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0816638934 hardcover alkaline paper |
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