Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 3611
Author(s): Hala, James.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Parturition of Poetry and the Birthing of Culture: The Ides Aglaecwif and Beowulf [an analysis of Grendel's mother].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 1 (Spring 1998):  Pages 29 - 50.
Year of Publication: 1998.
2. Record Number: 4353
Author(s): Paxson, James J.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Nether-Faced Devil and the Allegory of Parturition [The author argues that the representation of the devil with a face in place of its genitals draws on the allegory of childbirth and thereby demonizes the female sexual body].
Source: Studies in Iconography , 19., ( 1998):  Pages 139 - 176.
Year of Publication: 1998.
3. Record Number: 5434
Author(s): Paxson, James J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Gender Personified, Personification Gendered, and the Body Figuralized in "Piers Plowman" [The author first considers the tradition of personifications embodied as females and then argues that the gender of Meed and Anima are key feature in Langland's allegory].
Source: Yearbook of Langland Studies , 12., ( 1998):  Pages 65 - 96.
Year of Publication: 1998.
4. Record Number: 770
Author(s): Hanawalt, Barbara A. and Susan Noakes
Contributor(s):
Title : Trial Transcript, Romance, Propaganda: Joan of Arc and the French Body Politic [a semiotic reading relying on both historical study and literary criticism; analysis of the trial transcript as well as the later introduction in terms of politics and gender].
Source: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly , 57., 4 (Dec. 1996):  Pages 605 - 631.
Year of Publication: 1996.
5. Record Number: 1530
Author(s): Scheelar, Margo Husby.
Contributor(s):
Title : El Auto IX y la Destronizacion de Melibea [The author uses Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque to examine the descriptions of Melibea in Act Nine].
Source: Celestinesca , 19., 40180 ( 1995):  Pages 57 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1995.