Inventing womanhood
Subtitle: gender and language in later Middle English writing
By: Tara Williams
Series: Interventions: new studies in medieval culture; Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780814211519; 9780814292525
Subjects: Motherhood in literature; English literature; Women and literature; Women in literature; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of womanhood; title: Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood; title: Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis; title: Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid; title: Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe; title: The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.