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Johnson, Avian N.

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Mother Mary, Mother Christ: Maternity, materiality, and gender identity in medieval and early modern Christianity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mother Mary, Mother Christ: Maternity, materiality, and gender identity in medieval and early modern Christianity./
Author:	Johnson, Avian N.
Description:	163 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-05(E).
Subject:	European history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1526444
ISBN:	9781321803860

Mother Mary, Mother Christ: Maternity, materiality, and gender identity in medieval and early modern Christianity.
Johnson, Avian N.

Mother Mary, Mother Christ: Maternity, materiality, and gender identity in medieval and early modern Christianity. - 163 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Fullerton, 2015.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

As adherents of a faith centered on an incarnational miracle, Christians have always privileged the body as a site and sign of religious significance. Although the dualistic framework of Western thought maintained the superiority of the spiritual over the physical, the body nevertheless occupied a central role in the medieval Christian imagination. Because the body belongs to the female binary in Western traditions, this favorable orientation towards the somatic complicates commonly-held assumptions about pre-modern gender constructs. In medieval discourse, positive formulations of the female most often centered on bodily maternity, rendering the mother a key symbol from which past ideas about and attitudes toward women can be gleaned. Along with the ardent devotion to the Virgin Mary as Mother, the frequency with which medieval writers attributed maternal characteristics to their male Savior speak to a marked reverence for the female and the principles she embodied.

ISBN: 9781321803860Subjects--Topical Terms:

1972904
European history.

Mother Mary, Mother Christ: Maternity, materiality, and gender identity in medieval and early modern Christianity.
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520 $a With the social and ideological upheavals of the Reformation, however, the feminine, materialist sensibility of medieval Christianity began to dissipate. The widespread rejection of bodily forms of devotion in the early modern period reflects shifting religious perceptions in the European West that paralleled and underlay corresponding changes in gender ideology. New religious motifs which downplayed the bodily aspects of maternity in early modern Catholicism reflect a growing male anxiety about female bodies and reproductive powers in European society more broadly. With the practical regulation of female reproduction in the increasingly masculinized field of Western medicine and the rhetorical dematerialization of maternity in the discourse and imagery of post-Tridentine Christology and Mariology, the mother---represented both in the Mother of God and in the real mothers of early modern European society---became merely a medium of masculine creative energy.
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