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The Third Path: Alternative Sex, Alternative Gender in Le Roman de Silence
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1997
- pp. 35-46
- 10.1353/art.1997.0068
- Article
- Additional Information
Defining gender difference as a result of performance, enforced by shame, this essay moves beyond questioning the origins of the nature/nurture debate, examining instead what stakes the dominant culture has in understanding as original the identity categories that are only the effects of that culture's institutions and discourses.