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Theology at the Freak Show: St Uncumber and the Discourse of Liberation

Alison Jasper

a.e.jasper{at}stir.ac.uk

Christian theology can begin to contemplate release or escape from a gendered theological hierarchy which has been mapped onto the cultural view of gender normativity by following the ancient saintly pattern of St Uncumber’s tradition. St Uncumber responds to the call to difference by retaining her anomalous sexual characteristics—as the bearded lady. And tradition, by making of her a liberator, opens up the possibility of configuring her as a liberator from the imprisonment of biological essentialisms or normative sex gender.

Theology and Sexuality, Vol. 11, No. 2, 43-54 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1355835805051877
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