gender studies
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Gender and Difference III: Jews on the mind from magistra 659 days old
[ ... ] is also very useful for gender studies because it reminds us again of the contingency of medieval Christian ideas of masculinity. It’s all too ...
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Gender and difference II: Clerical masculinity and its discontents from magistra 664 days old
One of the unusual things in the Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages conference was the number of sessions that it had on masculinity. Gender studies ...
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Gender and Difference I: Finding or imposing the queer? from magistra 667 days old
I’m just back from the UK Gender and Medieval Studies Group conference (this year on Gender and Difference), which I found excellent. I want to try and ...
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How bad are Bad Carolingian Women? from magistra 822 days old
Anyone doing any work on women’s history or gender history in most periods has to find an approach to the phenomenon of the sources’ description of the ...
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The invention of masculinity? from magistra 1292 days old
I am back thinking about masculinity, after a seminar paper on marriage and masculinity in crisis in the works of Orderic Vitalis (a twelfth century ...
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What’s wrong with Judith Butler from magistra 1620 days old
One of the authors I read while looking at theoretical issues of gender for my thesis was Judith Butler. It was not a pleasant experience. While some ...
