Gendering the master narrative : women and power in the Middle Ages /
Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3s8mcp |
Table of Contents:
- A new economy of power relations: female agency in the middle ages / Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski
- Women and power through the family revisited / Jo Ann McNamara
- Women and confession: from empowerment to pathology / Dyan Elliott
- "With the heat of the hungry heart": empowerment and Ancrene wisse / Nicholas Watson
- Powers of record, powers of example: hagiography and women's history / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
- Who is the master of this narrative? Maternal patronage of the cult of St. Margaret / Wendy R. Larson
- "The wise mother": the image of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary / Pamela Sheingorn
- Did goddesses empower women? the case of dame nature / Barbara Newman
- Women in the late medieval English parish / Katherine L. French
- Public exposure? consorts and ritual in late medieval Europe: the example of the entrance of the dogaresse of Venice / Holly S. Hurlburt
- Women's influence on the design of urban homes / Sarah Rees Jones
- Looking closely: authority and intimacy in the late medieval urban home / Felicity Riddy.