6 Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 6
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Introduction 11
6. Following the Traces. Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities
7. 1 Assigned Female at Death 43
8. 2 Inherited Futures and Queer Privilege 65
9. 3 Juana de la Cruz 87
10. 4 Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David’s Life of Patriarch Ignatios 109
11. Peripheral Vision(s). Objects, Images, and Identities
12. 5 Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds 133
13. 6 Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine 155
14. 7 The Queerly Departed 177
15. Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities
16. 8 St Eufrosine’s Invitation to Gender Transgression 201
17. 9 Holy Queer and Holy Cure 223
18. 10 The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints 245
19. Epilogue 267
20. Appendix 281
21. Index 331