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Bodytalk
E. Jane Burns
Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary representations of women—from the excessively beautiful lady of courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce—are the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy.
In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is designed to convey. She investigates key moments in which the words of these medieval "women" dissent from and significantly restructure the conceptions of female sexuality, wifely obedience, courtly love, and adultery that are ... Read more
Bodytalk is an incisive, polemical, sophisticated, and often witty book about the gender issues that are raised by the very presence of female characters in male-authored texts. It brings recent feminist theory to bear upon the discussion of medieval texts, and contributes significantly to current feminist criticism by offering historically specific accounts of some of the founding moments of western conceptions of love, desire, and sexuality.
A volume in the New Cultural Studies series.
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