Challenging and Upholding the Gender Binary in the 12th Century

This article coincidentally touches on some of the topics that will be the subject of this month's podcast essay. What is the relationship between physiology, social performance and presentation, and legal status with respect to gender and sexuality? In tracing shifts in how these questions were asked and answered across time and space, we can begin to grasp a relativistic understanding of gender and sexuality categories. That, in turn, can help us identify both the commonalties and the distinctions between gender and sexuality identities in the past and those we are constantly evolving today.