Theology at the Freak Show: St Uncumber and the Discourse of Liberation
Alison Jasper
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 ancient saintly pattern St Uncumber's tradition. Uncumber responds call difference retaining her anomalous sexual characteristics —as bearded lady. And tradition, making liberator, opens up possibility configuring as liberator imprisonment biological essentialisms normative sex gender.
Theology and Sexuality