Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 3913
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Title : Boys Will Be... What? Gender, Sexuality, and Childhood in "Floire et Blancheflor" and "Floris et Lyriope" [The author argues that in both texts boyish sexuality leads to inappropriate choices, Floris transgresses social hierarchy and Floire calls into question the categories of gender and kinship].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 1 (Spring 1997):  Pages 39 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1997.

2. Record Number: 12787
Author(s): Krueger, Roberta.
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Title : Constructing Sexual Identities in the High Middle Ages: The Didactic Poetry of Robert de Blois [The author examines the courtesy manuals of Robert de Blois in order to examine the ways they contributed to medieval definitions of masculinity and femininity, as well as to reveal the ways those same traditional gender categories were destabilized and even transgressed in his writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Paragraph , 13., 2 (July 1990):  Pages 105 - 131.
Year of Publication: 1990.