Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9449
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Uebel , Michael.
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  • Title: On Becoming-Male
  • Source: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.  Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler.  Garland Publishing, 1997.  Pages 367 - 384.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Body Gender Masculinity Science
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  • Illustrations: Two figures. Figure One "Wound Man,"London, Wellcome Institute Library, Western MS 290 f. 53v. Figure Two "Dancing Illness Man," London, British Library, Arundel MS 251, f. 37.
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  • Abstract: Uebel offers a synthesis of the essays as they relate to the theme of spatialized identity: spaces actually offer men diverse possibilities for recomposing their existential corporeality and their social identity. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing at http://www.garlandpub.com].
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Virginia
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  • Year of Publication: 1997.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815328362