• “Knight as a Gender” with Mabel Mundy

  • Apr 16 2024
  • Length: 15 mins
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“Knight as a Gender” with Mabel Mundy

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  • If you could pick a gender, any gender, which one would that be, and why would it 1000% be knight? In this special minisode, I get to answer that question with Mabel Mundy, who shares fascinating insights into the genderfuckery of chivalric romance and crossdressing knights. Tune in now, to learn more about why gender ambiguity clearly is, and has always been, super hot, and how this plays out in Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney’s writing.

    If you too are picturing Brienne of Tarth at the bathhouse when hearing about Britomart, follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and let me know in the comments. To learn more about Mabel’s work, follow her on Twitter at @mabelcjmundy.

    A big, big thank you to the brilliant team of Queer and Trans Philologies at Cambridge University for creating this space!

    References:

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    https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/#call-for-papers
    Queer and Trans Philologies
    University of Cambridge
    CRASSH @crasshlive (Instagram)
    Crossdressing
    Genderfuckery
    Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
    Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
    Margaret Cavendish’s The Covenant of Pleasure
    Chivalric Romance
    Britomart
    Malecasta
    Bradamante
    Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
    Diane Watt
    The Redcrosse Knight
    Una

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. What forms of genderfuckery does Mabel talk about? If you are not familiar with the term, please look it up and/or check out the Queer Lit episode with Nick Cherryman.
    2. Why is Mabel particularly interested in doing research on chivalric romances?
    3. Mabel comments on how crossdressing knights can reveal something about the social category of gender that is possibly more important than their individual gender. Would you agree with that? Why or why not?
    4. Do you have a favourite knight?
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