IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 322: Gendered Borders: Transgressive and Transformational Medieval Bodies

Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	English Student Association / Pearl Kibre Medieval Studies Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Organiser:	William Arguelles, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Moderator/Chair:	William Arguelles, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Paper 322-a	Heavy Weighs the Heir: Pregnant Queens and Myths of Gender Exception (Language: English) William Arguelles, Graduate Center, City University of New York Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies
Paper 322-b	Trans… Matters: The Repartee of Medieval Bodies (Language: English) Dena Arguelles, Department of English, Seton Hall University, New Jersey Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Italian, Sexuality, Women's Studies
Paper 322-c	'My sturdy hardynesse': The Wife of Bath's Anti-Feminist Satire as Trans Narrative (Language: English) Miranda Hajduk, English Department / The Graduate Centre, City University of New York Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Sexuality, Women's Studies
Abstract	This panel hopes to explore the boundaries of sex and gender in the Middle Ages through three different case-studies. By examining these characters and their unusual, non-normative bodies - we hope to discover what borders between the genders/sexes existed in the Middle Ages and how stable or porous they truly are. Through a combination of literary, legal, and historical sources, our three panelists hope to challenge the stability of gender within the Middle Ages and expose some of the interesting transgressive histories and narratives that lay beyond that border.