Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Combining critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, the essays explore the relationship between Christian and masculine identity; children, penance, and sexuality; heroism, castration, and eunuchry; education; the relationship between male and animal bodies; discipline and gender; Chaucer; transvestism and knighthood; drag and blackface; contemporary identity theory; and other scholarly subjects.