Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England
Subtitle: speaking as a woman
By: M.C. Bodden
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780230618763
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; English literature; Equality; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Early works to 1800; Sex role; HISTORY / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Women's rights; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Women; Terminology; History
Description: "This book has two objectives: to demonstrate that, despite extensive evidence indicating a wholesale suppression of early women's speech, women were actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicitous with patriarchal ideology, and yet subversive in undermining that ideology. Further, this book dissociates early women's self-expression from, solely, licentiousness by greatly expanding the scope, the consequences, and the cultural forces of early women's speech"--
Table of contents: title: The control and criminalization of women's speech; title: The "imagined woman"; title: Women, conversation, crime, and the courts; title: The assembly of ladies : rebelling in Eden; title: Code-switching : male crossing into female speech domain; title: Margery Kempe : "I grab the microphone and move my body" : volatile speech, volatile bodies; title: Conclusion.