At the Limits of (Trans) Gender

Boon, Jessica A.

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“…37 Juana's intermediate body, as Boon has already noted, would likely have been understood by her contemporaries in such terms, with her male secondary sex characteristic explicable in terms of hot and cold temperament. 38 Though many Spanish physicians rejected the possibility of male-to-female gender transformation, the one-sex model did allow for the conceptualisation of intermediate sexes. As Juan Huarte explained in a 1575 treatise, it is true that if Nature finished making a perfect man, and wished to turn him into a woman, she would need only to turn his reproductive organs inward; and if, having created a woman, she wished to make her a man, she would need only to pull the uterus and testicles out of the body.…”

Section: An Adam's Apple a Miraculous Feminisation And A Subversive Vidamentioning

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

Becker

2023

Gender & History

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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.

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Section: An Adam's Apple a Miraculous Feminisation And A Subversive Vidamentioning

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

Becker

2023

Gender & History

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Sobre el ventrilocuismo de la imagen en la autoridad espiritual femenina

Sanmartín Bastida

2023

Prolegomena Romanica. Beiträge Zu Den Romanischen Kulturen Und Literaturen

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Digital visionary women: introducing the “Catalogue of Living Saints”

Acosta-García

Bastida

2021

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies

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This article introduces the "Catalogue of Living Saints," a wiki catalogue that provides knowledge about the lives of Castilian charismatic women, prior to Teresa of Ávila (d. 1582), who acquired reputations for holiness in their own times. The lives of these "holy" women show great contact between court and convent, and they contribute to better understanding the history of women and their subsequent impact on society. The collected lives appeared in a diversity of sources: manuscripts of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, including conventual books and compendia containing lives of saints, handwritten and printed chronicles of religious orders in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Castile, and other works. Thus, the Catalogue recovers several texts that have never been printed before and that in most cases were never edited independently. Furthermore, it integrates the development of a database in order to understand the different proposed hagiographical models and their performative shape and spatial distribution of power. Additionally, this article discusses how gathering, editing, and reading the lives of these women via an open-access virtual tool creates a new hermeneutical framework regarding the materiality of the original codices and printed volumes. Finally, it proposes mitigation measures in the near future to bring contemporary reading practices (and interpretation) closer to historical ones.

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At the Limits of (Trans) Gender

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

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

Sobre el ventrilocuismo de la imagen en la autoridad espiritual femenina

Digital visionary women: introducing the “Catalogue of Living Saints”

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