Inventing womanhood : gender and language in later Middle English writing /

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Tác giả chính: Williams, Tara, 1975-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Columbus : Ohio State University Press ©2011.
Loạt:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1cbn4n5
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