Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature (New Cultural Studies)
Contributors: Linda Lomperis (Editor); Sarah Stanbury (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780812213645
Subjects: Feminism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature, Medieval; History; Sociology; Women in literature; Literary Criticism; Women and literature; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Feminist Criticism; Europe; History and criticism; To 1500
First sentence: Recent feminist criticism has directed our attention to the pervasive presence of images of the wounded or fragmented female body in our cultural production.