IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 817: Following the 'Rules' of Gender (or Not!) in the Middle Ages, II
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
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 817-a | Ruling Medieval Women and Instruction in Middle English Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Women's Studies |
Paper 817-b | The Beloved in the Wounds: Ancrene Wisse and Þe Wohunge of ure Lauerd (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Theology, Women's Studies |
Paper 817-c | Breaking the Rules: Images and the Process of Imagination in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Theology, Women's Studies |
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. |