Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean

In light of Judith Butler’s insight, including her theories of gender trouble and performativity, this article investigates Brazilian journalist and activist Fernando Gabeira’s trajectory against machismo, homophobia, and gender presumptions. That trajectory spans his formative years, in Minas Gerais (1940s and 50s), the armed resistance to the military dictatorship. in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (1960s), the activism during exile, mostly in Sweden (1970-1979), and another 35 years of sociopolitical engagement, after his return to Brazil. Key to this essay’s central inquiry are Gabeira’s thoughts and experiences in his O que é isso, companheiro? (1979), O crepúsculo do macho (1980), and Entradas e bandeiras (1981).

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‘Travestido, Transformado, Definitivamente Distinto’? Transgenericidad and Gender Trouble in Leonardo Padura'sMáscaras

Bulletin of Latin American Research ◽

10.1111/blar.12667 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 449-463

Author(s):

AILSA M. PEATE

Keyword(s):

And Gender ◽

Gender Trouble

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The Effects of Gender Trouble: An Integrative Theoretical Framework of the Perpetuation and Disruption of the Gender/Sex Binary

Perspectives on Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/1745691620902442 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 174569162090244 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thekla Morgenroth ◽

Michelle K. Ryan

Keyword(s):

Empirical Work ◽

Western World ◽

Future Research ◽

Identity Threat ◽

Gender Performativity ◽

Biological Sex ◽

Personal Threat ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Trouble ◽

System Threat

In the Western world, gender has traditionally been viewed in the Western world as binary and as following directly from biological sex. This view is slowly changing among both experts and the general public, a change that has been met with strong opposition. In this article, we explore the psychological processes underlying these dynamics. Drawing on previous work on gender performativity as well as gender as a performance, we develop a psychological framework of the perpetuation and disruption of the gender/sex binary on a stage that facilitates and foregrounds binary gender/sex performance. Whenever character, costume, and script are not aligned the gender/sex binary is disrupted and gender trouble ensues. We integrate various strands of the psychological literature into this framework and explain the processes underlying these reactions. We propose that gender trouble can elicit threat—personal threat, group-based and identity threat, and system threat—which in turn leads to efforts to alleviate this threat through the reinforcement of the gender/sex binary. Our framework challenges the way psychologists have traditionally treated gender/sex in theory and empirical work and proposes new avenues and implications for future research.

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Geeks, Meta-Geeks, and Gender Trouble

Social Studies of Science ◽

10.1177/0306312707082954 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 201-232 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Keyword(s):

And Gender ◽

Gender Trouble

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The Vernacular Moment

The Quotidian Revolution ◽

10.7312/columbia/9780231175807.003.0005 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Christian Lee Novetzke

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Cultural Politics ◽

Thirteenth Century ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Social Ethics ◽

Social Conditions ◽

The Core ◽

The Social ◽

And Gender ◽

Historical Detail

Observes the attention to historical detail in the Līḷācaritra and this allows us some access to the social conditions that were arrayed around vernacularization in the decades just before the full advent of Marathi literature. This chapter studies the cultural practices of caste and gender that pervaded everyday life in the mid-thirteenth century and were recorded by the early Mahanubhavs in the Līḷācaritra. Attention to these questions of social ethics is vital for understanding the cultural politics at work at the core of a new literary world in Marathi.

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The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. by Claire M. Waters. Peterborough, Ont., and Tonawanda, NY: Broadview Press, 2018, 424 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽

10.3726/med012018_409 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 409-409

Author(s):

Albrecht Classen

Keyword(s):

Fifteenth Century ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Thirteenth Century ◽

Critical Edition ◽

Marie De France ◽

University Of California ◽

John The Baptist ◽

And Gender ◽

The University

Famous medieval writers continuously find modern publishers willing to produce ever new translations into modern vernacular languages, while the vast majority of contemporary medieval authors linger in the margins and often continue to await even the publication of a critical edition of their works. This is the case with Marie de France as well, whose lais have now been translated into English once again by Claire M. Waters who is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She has previously published studies such as Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages (2003), Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria (2008), and Translating Clergie: Status, Education, and Salvation in Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Texts (2016).

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