Wondrous Bodies
Trans Epistemology and Nonbinary Saints
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4831118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Libby (0000-0002-0648-5032, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 156-169 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910074 |
| OpenAlex | W4387860852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article places Marcella Althaus-Reid's theological reflection on popular devotion to the figure of Santa Librada in Argentina in conversation with scholarship on androgyny, nonbinary identity, and medieval gender-crossing saints. Tying together strands of medieval writing on wondrous bodies and contemporary articulations of nonbinary identity foregrounds how nonbinary embodiments destabilize modern conceptions of binary gender. Although I am not suggesting a return to premodern conceptions of the body, medieval texts are instructive insofar as they offer an epistemology of embodiment that evades the consolidation of binary categories of sex and gender
Aesthetics · Androgyny · Art · Conversation · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Masculinity · Scholarship · Sociology · Tying · Computer Science · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |