Jeffrey jerome and the interscripta; the armour of an alienating identity

femininity becomes a masquerade and masculinity becomes a spectacle
the sanctification of violent death promulgates an ethos of heroism that, by envaluing communal over personal identities, can either assist its culture in a program of aggressive expansion or aid the resistance against a neighbouring culture’s quest of Lebensraum
gendered terms demand constant re contextualisation into the cultural moment that produces them
early north europe law thought anus and vagina had same capacity for impregnation
early medieval distinguishing of gender generally involved a more holistic approach; stars, planets positioning as well as abundance of heat and bodily fluids
Liudprand thought that gender had more to do with foreignity than anatomy
that the Hero grieves when his companion or his love has been taken from him signals the relational status of masculinity
male identity and worth are not only won from but confirmed by the female whose Otherness is here allied with the supernatural, the monstrous, the marginal, and the chaotic, as if only the female's elevation to a higher or transfer to a different category of being made possible the dialogue between non-peers
a vision of masculinity wherein the hero is hurled into a melancholic state of lack when his beloved is absent
heroism= action // marriage + love then = no action, settling down, stopping; death of heroism // sanctity = ecclesiastically sanctioned masculinity; saint discovers himself by rejecting community and sexuality // heroism as a gender code has built into it a necessary end- death.
the feminine body is a menace to the somatic and spiritual integrity of the male saint; the female body is the gateway to the decentredness of the masculinity
Brutus inseminates a virginal land and creates a nation; colonialism = the rape of a nation