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This study begins with a two-fold premise: 1) that ideological messages are imbued in both gender and genre, and 2) that these two integrally related categories are affected by extraliterary forces. Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity is applied to the operations of genre in Middle English texts---Dame Sirith, the Interludium de clerico et puella, the Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail, the Wright’s Chaste Wife, and two works of advice, How the Goode Wife Taught Hyr Doughter, and How the Goode Man Taght Hys Son---in order to shed light on generic change and to illuminate the conditions necessary for genre to remain static and fixed. Ultimately, the essay argues that an understanding of generic change enables us to understand just how troubled gender could be in the Middle Ages.
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