Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 253 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781782046196
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1782046194
Series Statement:
Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) 39
Content:
Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies, sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well as German, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes of feminist analysis, primarily in medieval studies but with extensionsinto early modernism. Several interrogate the ethics of feminist hermeneutics, the function of women characters in various literary genres, and so-called "natural" binaries - sex/gender, male/female, East/West, etc. - that undergird our vision of the world. Others investigate learned women and notions of female readership, authorship, and patronage in the production and reception of texts and manuscripts. Still others look at bodies - male male, female, neither, and both - and how clothes cover and socially encode them. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies is a tribute to E. JaneBurns, whose important work has proven foundational to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Old French feminist studies. Through her scholarship, teaching, and leadership in co-founding theSociety for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Burns has inspired a new generation of feminist scholars. Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City; Daniel E. O'Sullivan is Professor of French at the University of Mississippi. Contributors: Cynthia J. Brown, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Kristin L. Burr, Madeline H. Caviness, Laine E. Doggett, Sarah-Grace Heller, Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Debating gender. Natural and unnatural woman : Melusine inside and out -- Nurturing debate in le Roman de Silence -- The man backing down from the lady in Trobairitz Tensos -- Having fun with women : why a feminist teaches Fabliaux -- Sartorial bodies. Hats and veils : there's no such thing as freedom of choice, and it's a good thing too -- When the knight undresses, his clothing speaks : vestimentary allegories in the works of Baudouin de Conde -- John/Eleanor Rykener revisited -- Mapping margins. Women's healing : from binaries to a nexus -- Silk in the age of Marco Polo -- Another land's end of literature : Honorat Bover and the Timbuktu -- Female authority : networks and influence. Anne de Bretagne and Anne de France : French female networks at the dawn of the Renaissance -- Staging female authority in Chantilly : Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche -- Babies and books : the holy kinship as a way of thinking about women's power in late medieval northen Europe -- Page layout and reading practices in Christine de pisan's Epistre Othea : reading with the ladies in London.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843844273
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Founding feminisms in medieval studies ISBN 9781843844273
Language:
English
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