Feminist approaches to the body in medieval literature
By: Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury, editors.
Contributors: Lomperis, Linda.; Stanbury, Sarah.
Series: New cultural studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Women in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Feminism and literature; Sex in literature; Symbolism in literature
Notes: "The body, gender, and sexuality in history and theory: a selective bibliography": p. [235]-243.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Petrarch's beloved body : Italia mia / Margaret Brose; title: Unruly bodies and ruling practices : Chaucer's Physician's tale as socially symbolic act / Linda Lomperis; title: The body politic and the queen's adulterous body in French romance / Peggy McCracken; title: Purity and danger : The paradox of Mary's body and the en-gendering of the Infancy narrative in the English Mystery Cycles / Theresa Coletti; title: Feminist masterplots : the gaze on the body of Pearl's dead girl / Sarah Stanbury; title: Originary fantasies and Chaucer's Book of the duchess / Gayle Margherita; title: Medieval medical views of women and female spirituality in the Ancrene wisse and Julian of Norwich's Showings / Elizabeth Robertson; title: Body into text : the Book of Margery Kempe / Wendy Harding; title: The prick which is not one : how women talk back in Old French fabliaux / E. Jane Burns; title: At the bottom of mirage, a woman's body : Le Roman de la rose of Jean Renart / Helen Solterer.