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9780230619869 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries.
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9780230602878 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2009, cover price $115.00
Product Description: To the Glory of Her Sex presents an account of medieval women's activities as correspondents, readers, writers, and literary patrons from antiquity through the fourteenth century. The writings explored here represent a cross-section of virtually every field in historical and literary studies, including Latin literature, romance literature in French, political and religious correspondence, theological and moral treatises written for women, and histories and biographies commissioned by or addressed to women...read more
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9781597402279 | Acls History E-Book Project, February 28, 2006, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: The author's readings in the public and private correspondence of medieval women suggested to her that women were far more involved in affairs of the world and in the lives and work of prominent men than is normally acknowledged.
9780253332547 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The author's readings in the public and private correspondence of medieval women suggested to her that women were far more involved in affairs of the world and in the lives and work of prominent men than is normally acknowledged.
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9781597405805 | Acls History E-Book Project, November 30, 2008, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: To the Glory of Her Sex presents an account of medieval women's activities as correspondents, readers, writers, and literary patrons from antiquity through the fourteenth century.
9780253211088 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $24.00
Product Description: This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces...read more
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9781403969101 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 7, 2007, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition.
Product Description: The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard...read more
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9783110199413 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, July 30, 2007, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis.
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9780521791885 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2003, cover price $115.00
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9780521796385 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $34.99
Product Description: Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well...read more
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9780801441127 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $88.95 | About this edition: Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted.
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9780801488306 | Cornell Univ Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $28.95
Product Description: The essays in this collection suggest the similar, and also strikingly dissimilar, strategies of women working within medieval courtly cultures to mitigate traditional patriarchal constraints. Many of the works and authors focus on the courtly aspects of medieval European and Heian culture in which art, literature, and love are the highest pursuits...read more
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9780312221676 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 4, 2000, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: The essays in this collection suggest the similar, and also strikingly dissimilar, strategies of women working within medieval courtly cultures to mitigate traditional patriarchal constraints.
Product Description: Explored in this book are women's contributions to letter writing in western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays represent the first attempt to chart medieval women's achievements in epistolarity, and the contributions to this volume situate the women writers in a historical context and employ a variety of feminist approaches...read more
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9780812214376 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explored in this book are women's contributions to letter writing in western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries.
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