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Highlights

  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

men’s sexed protest

Psychomachia gender-transformed epic into fight for new life

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

piggish men rebel against constraints of men’s lives

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

tales of Jereslaus’s wife & Jonathas in Hoccleve’s subversive Series

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

Lysistrata leads men’s strike: “Not while I’m bleeding!”

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!”

Rabelais added dog piss to Flamenca’s mockery of elite pretenses

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

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