IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 717: Following the 'Rules' of Gender (or Not!) in the Middle Ages, I
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship |
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Organiser: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Moderator/Chair: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Paper 717-a | Vexing Women of Saintly Stature: Catherine of Siena, Birgitta of Sweden, and Speaking Truth to Ecclesial Power (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Hagiography, Women's Studies |
Paper 717-b | Making up the Rules for Women: Female Succession in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
Paper 717-c | False Knights and True Blood: Reading the Traitor's Body in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Social History |
Abstract | These sessions aim to examine the many and disparate ways in which medieval women and men regularly and systematically broke the 'rules' of gender laid down by their culture and its epistemologies. Using a range of feminist, gender, and queer theories of selfhood, sexuality and identity, it will also scrutinise the ways in which rules could be both embraced and exploited in mimetic fashion, in order to bring about a subversion of inherited behavioural and literary norms. |