First published in 1997. Most work in gender studies has focused on women. This volume brings together various forms of gender theory, especially feminist and queer theory, to explore how men made cultures and culture made men, in the Middle Ages.

Contents Becoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler Body Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus D. Vance Smith Becoming Christian, Becoming Male? Steven F. Kruger Where the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials Allen J. Frantzen Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius David Townsend Abelard and (Re)writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization Martin Irvine Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession Bonnie Wheeler Abelard's Blissful Castration Yves Ferroul Eunuchs who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism Elliot R. Wolfson Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities Ruth Mazo Karras Wolf Man Leslie Dunton-Downer Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Erotic Discipline...Or Tee Hee, I like my boys to be girls: Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale Glenn Burger The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled Robert S. Sturges Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature Ad Putter The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind Garrett P. J. Epp Outlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities Claire Sponsler Normative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount R. James Goldstein On Becoming-Male Michael Uebel