Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. His publications include Monster Theory:Reading Culture, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the MiddleAges, and The Postcolonial Middle Ages.Bonnie Wheeler directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She is series editor of The NewMiddle Ages and edits the journal Arthuriana.

• ContentsBecoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie WheelerBody Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus D. Vance SmithBecoming Christian, Becoming Male? Steven F. KrugerWhere the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials Allen J. FrantzenIronic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius David TownsendAbelard and (Re)writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization Martin IrvineOrigenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession Bonnie WheelerAbelard's Blissful Castration Yves FerroulEunuchs who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism Elliot R. WolfsonSharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities Ruth Mazo KarrasWolf Man Leslie Dunton-DownerGowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 Jeffrey Jerome CohenErotic Discipline...Or "Tee Hee, I like my boys to be girls": Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale Glenn BurgerThe Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled Robert S. SturgesTransvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature Ad PutterThe Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind Garrett P. J. EppOutlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities Claire SponslerNormative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount R. James GoldsteinOn Becoming-Male Michael Uebel