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SUMMARY:English Medieval Colloquium: “Lely-wyte\, clene with pure virginyté”: The N-Town Nativity\, the Virgin Mary\, and Trans Misogyny
DESCRIPTION:English Medieval Colloquium presents:\nWed\, Nov 12 • 4:30 – 6 pm • 103 Chancellor Green\n“Lely-wyte\, clene with pure virginyté”: The N-Town Nativity\, the Virgin Mary\, and Trans Misogyny\nNat Rivkin\, Vanderbilt University Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow \nAbstract: This talk examines how the Virgin Mary’s immaculate childbirth in the N-Town Nativity illuminates recent scholarship on trans misogyny. I argue that the N-Town Nativity diagnoses Mary’s enduring virginity after childbirth as itself a form of gender variance\, and the play punishes the doubtful midwife Salomé for her lack of faith in another’s claim to womanhood. Moreover\, this early Christian drama allows scholars today to contest the hostile myth that trans misogyny is at once natural and biblically sanctioned. It is Mary’s durable yet opaque virginity that generates the anatomical scrutiny too often evoked by contemporary trans femininities. \n\nPresented by the Department of English.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/english-medieval-colloquium-lely-wyte-clene-with-pure-virginyte-the-n-town-nativity-the-virgin-mary-and-trans-misogyny/
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