Title: Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England
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"--
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, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Women, great britain, Women, history, middle ages, 500-1500, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Gender studies: women, British & Irish history, Medieval history, Literature, Early modern, Middle Ages
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Middle Ages, 500-1500, Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century