Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

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• Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction ix
• Notes xxiv
• Part I - Differing Cultures, Differing Possibilities 1
• 1 - On the History of the Early Phallus 3
• Notes 34
• 2 - Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad 45
• Appendix B: Some Caliphs 66
• Notes 67
• 3 - Reconfiguring the Prophet Daniel: Gender, Sanctity, and Castration in Byzantium 73
• Notes 98
• 4 - Negotiating Gender in Anglo-Saxon England 107
• Notes 129

• Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction ix
• Notes xxiv
• Part I - Differing Cultures, Differing Possibilities 1
• 1 - On the History of the Early Phallus 3
• Notes 34
• 2 - Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad 45
• Appendix B: Some Caliphs 66
• Notes 67
• 3 - Reconfiguring the Prophet Daniel: Gender, Sanctity, and Castration in Byzantium 73
• Notes 98
• 4 - Negotiating Gender in Anglo-Saxon England 107
• Notes 129
• Part II - Discourses of Domination 143
• 5 - Male Friendship and the Suspicion of Sodomy in Twelfth-Century France 145
• Notes 173
• 6 - Crucified by the Virtues: Monks, Lay Brothers, and Women in Thirteenth-Century Cistercian Saints' Lives 182
• Notes 201
• 7 - “because the Other is a Poor Woman She Shall Be Called His Wench”: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status in Late Medieval England 210
• Notes 225
• 8 - Re-Orienting Desire: Writing on Gender Trouble in Fourteenth-Century Egypt 230
• Notes 249
• Part III - Individual Choices, Strategies of Resistance 259
• 9 - Manual Labor, Begging, and Conflicting Gender Expectations in Thirteenth-Century Paris 261
• Notes 281
• 10 - Female Homoerotic Discourse and Religion in Medieval Germanic Culture 288
• Notes 310
• 11 - Nonviolent Christianity and the Strangeness of Female Power in Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale 322
• Notes 348
• Contributors 353