Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) |
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The new Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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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' |
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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
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Women -- Terminology
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Sex role -- Terminology
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Women's rights -- Early works to 1800
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Equality -- Early works to 1800
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
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Gender studies: women -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
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British & Irish history -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
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Medieval history -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Literature.
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English literature -- Early modern
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Equality
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Sex role
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Women
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Women -- Middle Ages
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Women's rights
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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History
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Terminology
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780230337657 |
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0230337651 |
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9781349381449 |
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1349381446 |
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