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Gender and text in the later Middle Ages

Author: Jane Chance
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Chance
OCLC Number: 33440093
Description: xv, 342 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Selected Women Authors, 8th-15th Centuries --
Introduction / Jane Chance --
Pt. 1. M/F: Authority. Domination, Misogyny. 1. Muliebriter: Doing Gender in the Letters of Heloise / Catherine Brown. 2. The Use of Gender and Gender-Related Imagery in Hadewijch / Saskia M. Murk-Jansen. 3. Gender and Prophetic Authority in Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations / Claire L. Sahlin. 4. Rejecting Essentialism and Gendered Writing: The Case of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards --
Pt. II. Autohagiography and Self-Mimesis: The Construction of Female Subjectivity. 5. Marie de France and the Body Poetic / Rupert T. Pickens. 6. Rewriting Romance: Courtly Discourse and Auto-Citation in Christine de Pizan / Kevin Brownlee. 7. A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe / Sarah Beckwith. 8. Autohagiography and Medieval Women's Spiritual Autobiography / Kate Greenspan --
Pt. III. Speaking the Body: Transhumanization and Subversion.
Responsibility: edited by Jane Chance.

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by WTYILL@KUK (WorldCat user on 2007-07-27)

Acknowledgments xi
Selected Women Authors, 8th-15th Centuries xiii
Introduction, by Jane Chance 1

Part I. M/F: Authority, Domination, Misogyny 23
1. Catherine Brown, "Muliebriter": Doing Gender in the Letters of Heloise 25
2. Saskia M. Murk-Jansen, The Use of Gender and Gender-Related Imagery in Hadewijch 52
3. Claire L. Sahlin, Gender and Prophetic Authority in Birgitta of Sweden’s "Revelations" 69
4. Earl Jeffrey Richards, Rejecting Essentialism and Gendered Writing: The Case of Christine de Pizan 96

Part II. Autohagiography and Self-Mimesis: The Construction of Female Subjectivity 133
5. Rupert T. Pickens, Marie de France and the Body Poetic 135
6. Kevin Brownlee, Rewriting Romance: Courtly Discourse and Auto-Citation in Christine de Pizan 172
7. Sarah Beckwith, A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe 195
8. Kate Greenspan, Autohagiography and Medieval Women’s Spiritual Autobiography 216

Part III. Speaking the Body: Transhumanization and Subversion 237
9. Christina Mazzoni, On the (Un)Representability of Woman’s Pleasure: Angela of Foligno and Jacques Lacan 239
10. Maria R. Lichtmann, “God fulfilled my bodye”: Body, Self, and God in Julian of Norwich 263
11. Claire Nouvet, Writing (in) Fear 279
12. Mary E. Giles, The Discourse of Ecstacy: Late Medieval Spanish Women and Their Texts 306

Contributors 331
Index 335

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