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Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an
interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in
medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined
analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory - yet,
too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively
through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This
volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of
hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic
categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection
showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as
well as the work of established researchers. Working at the
vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate
the vital and vitally political nature of their work as
medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval
Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern
trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors,
providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has
insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of
non-normative gender in history.
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