The Psychomachia gender-transformed epic violence of men against men into women fighting women to show the way to birth new life in Christ. … Read the post Psychomachia gender-transformed epic into fight for new life
For a year Odysseus and his men lived piggish lives with Circe. Straparola’s pig-king fairy-tale shows that men might prefer to live as pigs. … Read the post piggish men rebel against constraints of men’s lives
Hoccleve’s Series (1420) drew tales of Jereslaus’s wife and Jonathas from the medieval Gesta Romanorum to provide a critical perspective on social justice. … Read the post tales of Jereslaus’s wife & Jonathas in Hoccleve’s subversive Series
In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the most manly of all women Lysistrata proclaimed that war should be women’s work – a step toward gender equality not taken. … Read the post Lysistrata leads men’s strike: “Not while I’m bleeding!”
After amorous gambits in church as in medieval Flamenca, Rabelais’ Panurge overthrew the great lady of Paris with dog piss in carnivalic gender revolution. … Read the post Rabelais added dog piss to Flamenca’s mockery of elite pretenses