Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries

Newman, Martha G.

doi:10.1017/9789048540266.002

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2023

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Book1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent2

Authors

Journals

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Put another way, in later works on Juana, we may observe a constraint of the potential for transmasculine sanctity and an occlusion of the potential for transfeminine sanctity. 4 In this article, I will shed light on the attitudes and material forces underpinning these telling textual reformulations.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Transmisogyny in later (1588–1623) hagiography on Mother Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)

Becker

2023

Gender & History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article, I contextualise and explain the restriction of what I term ‘trans potential’ in later hagiography on the Spanish visionary abbess Mother Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534). The first written work on Juana included a functionally transmasculine narrative (Juana passed briefly as a man) and a functionally transfeminine narrative (God miraculously feminised the previously male Juana prior to her birth, leaving her with an Adam's apple). In later works, the transmasculine narrative appears significantly modified, and the transfeminine narrative does not appear at all. These textual reformulations, I conclude, are most legible within the framework of transmisogyny.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%