On Thu, 19 Dec 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> There is a recent (1994) publication called "Medieval Masculinities: Regarding
> Men in the Middle Ages", Clare Lees, ed. U of Minnesota Press. There are a
> number of articles, including one by Vern Bullough, that may be of use to you.
> It is a book in the field of the "new" masculine studies. I didn't make up the
> tewrm, I just quoted it - and you note that I resisted saying "isn't
> everything masculine studies, anyway^". Regards, Terry
>
As one of the people involved in putting "Medieval Masculinities"
together, I can't resist saying that the inspiration behind the project
was precisely that everything is not masculine studies but perhaps it
should be. Women are gendered all the time but men are only gendered in
relation to women or, at the broadest, sexual activity. The rest of the
time they hide behind anthropomorphized institutions and the erroneous
identification equation "men = humanity." The point of the project was
to begin stripping this mask away and recognizing the presence of
gendered men in every facet of our experience.
Jo Ann McNamara
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