Queering the Middle AgesGlenn Burger, Steven F. Kruger U of Minnesota Press - 318 Seiten The essays in this volume present new work that, in one way or another, "queers" stabilized conceptions of the Middle Ages, allowing us to see the period and its systems of sexuality in radically different, off-center, and revealing ways. While not denying the force of gender and sexual norms, the authors consider how historical work has written out or over what might have been non-normative in medieval sex and culture, and they work to restore a sense of such instabilities. At the same time, they ask how this pursuit might allow us not only to re-envision medieval studies but also to rethink how we study culture from our current set of vantage points within postmodernity. The authors focus on particular medieval moments: Christine de Pizan's representation of female sexuality; chastity in the Grail romances; the illustration of "the sodomite" in manuscript commentaries on Dante's Commedia; the complex ways that sexuality inflected English national politics at the time of Edward II's deposition; the construction of the sodomitic Moor by Reconquista Spain. Throughout, their work seeks to disturb a logic that sees the past as significant only insofar as it may make sense for and of a stabilized present. |
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Seite xi
... normative gender and sex- uality is called into question by Fanny Hill's " scientific " description of the sodomitical scene— " His red - topt ivory toy , that stood perfectly stiff shewed , that if he was like his mother behind , he ...
... normative gender and sex- uality is called into question by Fanny Hill's " scientific " description of the sodomitical scene— " His red - topt ivory toy , that stood perfectly stiff shewed , that if he was like his mother behind , he ...
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... normative sexual economy and in a tense relation to the conventional masculinity of knighthood . Claire Sponsler's essay interrogates the complex ways in which sexuality— both a demonization of male - male sex and an assertion of the ...
... normative sexual economy and in a tense relation to the conventional masculinity of knighthood . Claire Sponsler's essay interrogates the complex ways in which sexuality— both a demonization of male - male sex and an assertion of the ...
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... normative constructions of desire.2 In the process , Christine queers the Ovidian obsession with metamorphosis and ex- plores trans - species sexuality as a way of revising received notions of fe- male sexuality and envisioning female ...
... normative constructions of desire.2 In the process , Christine queers the Ovidian obsession with metamorphosis and ex- plores trans - species sexuality as a way of revising received notions of fe- male sexuality and envisioning female ...
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... normative sexuality is defined in the discourse of ' in - law ' practice : such sexuality falls within the bounds of law , and , as ' in - law ' suggests , the dis- course rhetorically and legally binds sexuality to marriage , family ...
... normative sexuality is defined in the discourse of ' in - law ' practice : such sexuality falls within the bounds of law , and , as ' in - law ' suggests , the dis- course rhetorically and legally binds sexuality to marriage , family ...
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... normative view of sexuality and power relations ( " She woke up , and interpreted ... the bulls [ as ] devils and wicked men " ) . " By contrast , the Othea's dreamlike image of Pasi- phae stroking her bull emphatically envisions ...
... normative view of sexuality and power relations ( " She woke up , and interpreted ... the bulls [ as ] devils and wicked men " ) . " By contrast , the Othea's dreamlike image of Pasi- phae stroking her bull emphatically envisions ...
Inhalt
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SODOMYS MARK ALAN OF LILLE JEAN DE MEUN AND THE MEDIEVAL THEORY OF AUTHORSHIP | 30 |
THE POSE OF THE QUEER DANTES GAZE BRUNETTO LATINIS BODY | 59 |
PRESIDENTIAL IMPROPRIETIES AND MEDIEVAL CATEGORIES THE ABSURDITY OF HETEROSEXUALITY | 89 |
THE SODOMITIC MOOR QUEERNESS IN THE NARRATIVE OF RECONQUISTA | 101 |
CHASTE SUBJECTS GENDER HEROISM AND DESIRE IN THE GRAIL QUEST | 125 |
THE KINGS BOYFRIEND FROISSARTS POLITICAL THEATER OF 1326 | 145 |
JUST LIKE A WOMAN QUEER HISTORY WOMANIZING THE BODY AND THE BOYS IN ARNAUDS BAND | 170 |
TRANSLATING THE FORESKIN | 195 |
SHAMEFUL PLEASURES UP CLOSE AND DIRTY WITH CHAUCER FLESH AND THE WORD | 215 |
ECCE HOMO | 238 |
MEDIEVALPOSTMODERN HIVAIDS AND THE TEMPORALITY OF CRISIS | 254 |
RETURN OF THE REPRESSED THE SEQUEL | 286 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 301 |
Index of Proper Names and Titles of Anonymous Works | 307 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite xxiv - Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex...
Seite 2 - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990), and Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
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Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality James A. Schultz Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |
Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales Mark Miller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |