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Ogling Ladies
Sandra Lindemann Summers
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Description for Ogling Ladies
An analysis of medieval literature through an exploration of the female gaze. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
The love of looking, or scopophilia, is a common motif among female figures in medieval art and literature where it is usually expressed as a motherly or sexually interested gaze—one sanctioned, the other forbidden.
Sandra Summers investigates these two major variants of female voyeurism in exemplary didactic and courtly literature by medieval German authors. Setting the motif against the period’s dominant patriarchal ethos and its almost exclusive pattern of male authorship, Summers argues that the maternal gaze was endorsed as a stabilising influence while the erotic gaze was condemned as a threat to medieval order.
Summers brings to ... Read more
The love of looking, or scopophilia, is a common motif among female figures in medieval art and literature where it is usually expressed as a motherly or sexually interested gaze—one sanctioned, the other forbidden.
Sandra Summers investigates these two major variants of female voyeurism in exemplary didactic and courtly literature by medieval German authors. Setting the motif against the period’s dominant patriarchal ethos and its almost exclusive pattern of male authorship, Summers argues that the maternal gaze was endorsed as a stabilising influence while the erotic gaze was condemned as a threat to medieval order.
Summers brings to ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813044187
SKU
V9780813044187
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99-3
About Sandra Lindemann Summers
Sandra Lindemann Summers is a lecturer in German at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, USA.
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