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
Men suffering under gender oppression desperately need loyal women. In these circumstances, women’s betrayal and disloyalty to men prompts bitter protest. … Read the post men’s sense of women’s disloyalty spurs men’s sexed protests