One of the things I do in my ARCH30760: Early Medieval Ireland course. “We tell histories about what it meant to be a woman [or a man] at a certain time and place, and we track the transformation of those categories over time. ”https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times …
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What I like Is this gives me scope to say “Yes, early medieval texts were misogynist and early Irish Laws (largely) subjugated women, but @PeritiaEditors writings on third gender, and archaeologies of practice and women’s actual lives give us lots of things to talk about here”
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Replying to @AidanOSulliva15
I think one of the most important things to teach students is that our concepts of a gender binary are in fact very much so informed by modern ideas, and the idea that they were always rigid and universally defined is not true.
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One of the things I struggle with slightly, is that early medieval social identities were certainly relational, but also, to be honest, more essentialist. My get out sentence is “we study these societies, we don’t have to like them” What’s with the church thinking slavery is ok?
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At the dentist all day today (think, ouch..). He asked me, in between torture, “Do you ever dreamily think of the past & say you’d like to have lived then?” “Janey Mac, no!” I replied “This is the best of all times, especially for women. Thanks for the anesthetic by the way”

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Yeah I do wonder at people who would prefer to live in the past. I like my rights, vaccinations, antibiotics, and clean running water thank you very much.
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