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Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns

Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns

Doggett, Laine E.
Rasmussen, Ann Marie
Daniel O'Sullivan, Daniel E.

Hardcover

Series: Gallica, Book 39

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1843844273
ISBN13: 9781843844273
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Mar 17 2016
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.

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 extensions into 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.

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