Inventing womanhood : gender and language in later Middle English writing /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press
©2011.
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| Series: | Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1cbn4n5 |
Table of Contents:
- The origins of womanhood
- Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood
- Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis
- Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid
- Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe
- The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.