Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns
Laine Doggett
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Description for Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns
Hardback. Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages. Num Pages: 280 pages, 37 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 722.
Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages. Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies, sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well as German, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes of feminist analysis, primarily ... Read more
Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages. Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies, sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well as German, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes of feminist analysis, primarily ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843844273
SKU
V9781843844273
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Laine Doggett
Dr Alex Davis is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. SARAH-GRACE HELLER is Associate Professor and Chair of French and Italian at the Ohio State University.
Reviews for Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns
By every measure, E. Jane Burns is a founding mother of medieval feminist scholarship. ... She richly deserves a high-quality Festschrift, and I am happy to say that she has received one.
MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM
As testimony to the powerful influence brought to the profession by Burns, examples of inspiration and influence appear throughout, including several by notable ... Read more
MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM
As testimony to the powerful influence brought to the profession by Burns, examples of inspiration and influence appear throughout, including several by notable ... Read more