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Inventing Womanhood Gender And Language In Later Middle English Writing Tara Williams

Name: Inventing Womanhood Gender And Language In Later Middle English Writing Tara Williams
SKU: BELL-51055272
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Publisher: Ohio State University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.09 MB

Pages: 224

Author: Tara Williams

ISBN: 9780814211519, 0814211518, 9780814292525

Language: English

Year: 2011

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Inventing Womanhood Gender And Language In Later Middle English Writing Tara Williams by Tara Williams 9780814211519, 0814211518, 9780814292525 instant download after payment.

In Inventing Womanhood, Tara Williamsinvestigates new ideas about womanhood that arose in fourteenth-century Britain and evolved throughout the fifteenth century. In the aftermath of the plague and the substantial cultural shifts of the late 1300s, female roles expanded temporarily. As a result, the dominant models of maiden, wife, and widow could no longer adequately describe women’s roles and lives.

Middle English writers responded by experimenting with new ways of representing women across a variety of genres, from courtly poetry to devotional texts and from royal correspondence to cycle plays. In particular, writers coined new terms, including “womanhood” and “femininity,” and refashioned others, such as “motherhood.” These experiments allowed writers to develop and define a larger idea of womanhood underlying more specific identities like wife or mother and to re-imagine women’s relationships to different kinds of authority—generally masculine and frequently religious.

By exploring the medieval origins of some of our most important gender vocabulary, Inventing Womanhood defamiliarizes our modern usage, which often treats those terms as etymologically transparent and almost limitlessly capacious. It also restores a necessary historical and linguistic dimension to gender studies, providing the groundwork for reconsidering how that language and the categories it creates have determined the ways in which gender has been imagined since the Middle Ages.