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nz805x25310	Rebecca  E. Wiegel	Reading Matrona: The Sixth Century Life of a Trans Saint	2019		.txt	text/plain	203	6	32	To articulate a trans hermeneutic for reading pre-modern texts, this dissertation engages critical theory from transgender studies, concluding that since Matrona moves from one position of sexed or gendered intelligibility to another within her culture, she can be read as trans. After analyzing each of Matrona's transitions within the text, this dissertation then shows how the hagiographer centralizes gendered transitions within the text as a whole, presenting Matrona as a universal exemplar.	cache/nz805x25310.txt	txt/nz805x25310.txt