Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature

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ISBN: 9780812213645 | 0812213645
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1993

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Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literatureforges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature. The essays establish crucial historical connections between feminist theorizing about the body and specific accounts of gendered bodies in medieval texts.

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Introduction: Feminist Theory and Medieval "Body Politics"
Petrarch's Beloved Body: "Italia mia"	p. 1
Unruly Bodies and Ruling Practices: Chaucer's Physician's Tale as Socially Symbolic Act	p. 21
The Body Politic and the Queen's Adulterous Body in French Romance	p. 38
Purity and Danger: The Paradox of Mary's Body and the En-gendering of the Infant Narrative in the English Mystery Cycles	p. 65
Feminist Masterplots: The Gaze on the Body of Pearl's Dead Girl	p. 96
Originary Fantasies and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess	p. 116
Medieval Medical Views of Women and Female Spirituality in the Ancrene Wisse and Julian of Norwich's Showings	p. 142
Body into Text: The Book of Margery Kempe	p. 168
This Prick Which Is Not One: How Women Talk Back in Old French Fabliaux	p. 188
At the Bottom of Mirage, a Woman's Body: Le Roman de la rose of Jean Renart	p. 213
The Body, Gender, and Sexuality in History and Theory: A Selective Bibliography	p. 235
Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 247
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