25 - A Dance with Genders

We're back with another episode discussing gender, gender nonconformity, gender norms and more! In this episode we manage to compare another medieval saint to Brienne of Tarth, discuss masculinity norms in relation to clothing in ASOIAF compared to the real world, and talk a fair bit about gender norms in different cultures (both within ASOIAF and without).

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References and sources

Lo talks about:

”Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries” by Martha G Newman. In Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt.

“Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?” by M.W Bychowski.

“Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in Early Modern Ottoman Empire” by Abdulhamit Arvas. In Trans Historical - Gender Plurality before the Modern, edited by Greta LeFleur, Masha Raskolnikov & Anna Kłosowska.

And the recent crackdown on Turkish LGBTQI+ organisations, which you can read more about here: "Türkiye must end the coordinated crackdown on LGBTI+ civil society!" - ILGA World

Virginie talks about:

The books by Michel Pastoureau, such as Rose : histoire d'une couleur.

Dragoons (mounted infantry)

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