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Record Number: 8253 Author(s)/Creator(s): Donovan , Josephine. Contributor(s): Title: Women and the Framed-Novelle: A Tradition of Their Own [argues that women used the prose fiction form to counter such misogynist ideas as women as commodities of exchange and thereby developed a feminist consciousness, an awareness of the unjust subordination of women; though primarily devoted to women authors in the early modern period, the author briefly discusses the "Livre de la cité des dames" and the "Evangiles des quenouilles"]. Source URL: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Full Text via JSTOR) 22, 4 (Summer 1997): 947-980. Link Info target = '_blank'>Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Full Text via JSTOR) 22, 4 (Summer 1997): 947-980. Link Info Description: Article Type: Journal Article Subject (See Also): Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Cite des Dames Evangiles des Quenouilles, Comic Text Feminist Theory Frame Stories, Literary Genre Literature- Prose Novelle, Literary Genre Oral Tradition Rhetoric Women Authors Award Note: Geographic Area: France Century: 15 Primary Evidence: Illustrations: One figure. Manuscript miniature from Les Évangiles des quenouilles (ca. 1466-1474) (Condé Museum, Chantilly). Group of women working with spindles. Table: Abstract: Related Resources: Author's Affiliation: University of Maine Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 1997. Language: English ISSN/ISBN: 00979740 0

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