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Record Number:
8643
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Burns , E. Jane.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Raping Men: What's Motherhood Got to Do with It?
Source:
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose. The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Pages 127 - 160.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Beauty in Literature
Infanticide in Literature
Mothers in Literature
Ovid, Ancient Poet
Philomena, Old French Poem
Progne (Literary Figure)
Rape in Literature
Sexual Violence in Literature
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Geographic Area:
France
Century:
12
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
This essay draws on the Old French "Philomena" to understand how the abusive effects of sexual violence against women are positioned within and cushioned by larger cultural narratives of beauty, allurement, and love and, less predictably, within traditions of marriage and motherhood. [Reproduced by permission of Palgrave].
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Abstract:
Author's Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2001.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0312236484