Feminist approaches to the body in medieval literature
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Feminist approaches to the body in medieval literature
（The new cultural studies series）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993
- : pbk
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"The body, gender, and sexuality in history and theory: a selective bibliography": p. [235]-243
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Petrarch's beloved body : Italia mia / Margaret Brose
- Unruly bodies and ruling practices : Chaucer's Physician's tale as socially symbolic act / Linda Lomperis
- The body politic and the queen's adulterous body in French romance / Peggy McCracken
- Purity and danger : The paradox of Mary's body and the en-gendering of the Infancy narrative in the English Mystery Cycles / Theresa Coletti
- Feminist masterplots : the gaze on the body of Pearl's dead girl / Sarah Stanbury
- Originary fantasies and Chaucer's Book of the duchess / Gayle Margherita
- Medieval medical views of women and female spirituality in the Ancrene wisse and Julian of Norwich's Showings / Elizabeth Robertson
- Body into text : the Book of Margery Kempe / Wendy Harding
- The prick which is not one : how women talk back in Old French fabliaux / E. Jane Burns
- At the bottom of mirage, a woman's body : Le Roman de la rose of Jean Renart / Helen Solterer
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780812213645
Description
Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature forges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature. The essays establish crucial historical connections between feminist theorizing about the body and specific accounts of gendered bodies in medieval texts.
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ISBN 9780812231175
Table of Contents
Petrarch's beloved body : Italia mia / Margaret Brose -- Unruly bodies and ruling practices : Chaucer's Physician's tale as socially symbolic act / Lin Lomperis -- The body politic and the queen's adulterous body in French roman / Peggy McCracken -- Purity and danger : The paradox of Mary's body and the en-gendering of the Infancy narrative in the English Mystery Cycles / Theres Coletti -- Feminist masterplots : the gaze on the body of Pearl's dead girl Sarah Stanbury -- Originary fantasies and Chaucer's Book of the duchess / Ga Margherita -- Medieval medical views of women and female spirituality in the Ancrene wisse and Julian of Norwich's Showings / Elizabeth Robertson -- Body into text : the Book of Margery Kempe / Wendy Harding -- The prick which is one : how women talk back in Old French fabliaux / E. Jane Burns -- At the bottom of mirage, a woman's body : Le Roman de la rose of Jean Renart / Hele Solterer.
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