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Author Bodden, Mary-Catherine

Title Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England : speaking as a woman / M.C. Bodden
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages)
Series The new Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Contents Idle Talk and the Criminalization of Women's Speech -- The Imagined Woman -- Women, Conversation, Crime, and the Courts -- Staged Conversations -- Code-Switching: Male Crossing into Female Speech Domain -- Margery Kempe: 'I grab the microphone and move my body'
The control and criminalization of women's speech -- The "imagined woman" -- Women, conversation, crime, and the courts -- The assembly of ladies : rebelling in Eden -- Code-switching : male crossing into female speech domain -- Margery Kempe : "I grab the microphone and move my body" : volatile speech, volatile bodies -- Conclusion
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Women -- Terminology
Sex role -- Terminology
Women's rights -- Early works to 1800
Equality -- Early works to 1800
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
Gender studies: women -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
British & Irish history -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
Medieval history -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Literature.
English literature -- Early modern
Equality
Sex role
Women
Women -- Middle Ages
Women's rights
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
History
Terminology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230337657
0230337651
9781349381449
1349381446