Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 20779
Author(s): Meyer, Mati
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Title : The Levite's Concubine: Imaging the Marginal Woman in Byzantine Society [Provides comparative discussion of different representations of the rape of the concubine within the corpus of illuminated Byzantine manuscripts; extrapolates on what these different representations -particularly of clothing--reveal about contemporary clergy's attitudes towards the concepts of women, sexuality, and the function of marriage. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 27., ( 2006): Pages 45 - 76.
Year of Publication: 2006.

2. Record Number: 20733
Author(s): Harris, Barbara J.
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Title : Aristocratic and Gentry Women, 1460-1640

Source: History Compass , 4., 4 ( 2006): Pages 668 - 686.
Year of Publication: 2006.

3. Record Number: 10933
Author(s): Osborn, Marijane
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Title : Authorship and Sexual/Allegorical Violence in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" [The author argues that while Jean de Meun's "Rose" calls attention to authorship and authority, it supports the privileges of patriarchy and the subordination of women. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004): Pages 628 - 659.
Year of Publication: 2004.

4. Record Number: 9501
Author(s): Lee, Becky R.
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Title : Men's Recollections of a Women's Rite: Medieval English Men's Recollections Regarding the Rite of the Purification of Women after Childbirth

Source: Gender and History , 14., 2 (August 2002): Pages 224 - 241.
Year of Publication: 2002.

5. Record Number: 9703
Author(s): Howell, Margaret.
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Title : Royal Women of England and France in the Mid-Thirteenth Century: A Gendered Perspective [The author examines the lives of twelve royal women associated with Henry III, King of England, and Louis IX, King of France. Howell analyzes various issues conditioned by gender including motherhood, relations with husbands, intercession, and political power. She concludes that for queens like Isabella of Angoulme, Blanche of Castile, Marguerite of Provence, Eleanor of Castile, and Eleanor of Provence, marriage brought lives that were varied, interesting, and satisfying. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (1216-1272). Edited by Bjšrn K. U. Weiler with Ifor W. Rowlands . Ashgate, 2002. Gender and History , 14., 2 (August 2002): Pages 163 - 181.
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 8074
Author(s): Salisbury, Eve, Georgiana Donavin and Merrall Llewelyn Price
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Title : Introduction [In this introductory essay the authors briefly survey the historiography and surviving evidence for domestic violence in the Middle Ages. They argue for the importance of the essays in this collection because they consider issues of domestic violence more broadly than much of the previous scholarship on the topic. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price . University Press of Florida, 2002. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004): Pages 1 - 27.
Year of Publication: 2002.

7. Record Number: 7252
Author(s): Sheingorn, Pamela.
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Title : Joseph the Carpenter's Failure at Familial Discipline [The author examines representations of Joseph in some fourteenth century texts and illustrations concerning apocryphal stories of the flight into Egypt. He is presented very negatively both as a Jew and a member of the lower class. His masculinity is even further questioned because he cannot protect his family nor can he assert his patriarchal authority over his wife and child. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Insights and Interpretations: Studies in Celebrations of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art. Edited by Colum Hourihane . Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 2002. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004): Pages 156 - 167.
Year of Publication: 2002.

8. Record Number: 8083
Author(s): Najemy, John M.
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Title : Giannozzo and His Elders: Alberti's Critique of Renaissance Patriarchy [The author argues that the figure of Giannozzo is used by Alberti to criticize the arbitrary power of fathers over sons and the resulting efforts of sons to control their wives, thereby recuperating some of their lost masculinity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence. Edited by William J. Connell . University of California Press, 2002. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004): Pages 51 - 78.
Year of Publication: 2002.

9. Record Number: 7271
Author(s): McCracken, Peggy.
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Title : Engendering Sacrifice: Blood, Lineage, and Infanticide in Old French Literature [The author analyzes the theme of infanticide in Chretien de Troyes' "Philomena," "Ami et Amile," accounts of Abraham and Isaac, and "Jourdain de Blaye." The author argues that the child's death takes on a different meaning according to the gender of the sacrificer. When the father kills the child, the blood is paternal blood and represents a sacrifice for loyalty or for God. When the mother kills the child, the blood is maternal, associated with the impurities of childbirth, and is done only as an act of revenge. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 55 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2002.

10. Record Number: 8075
Author(s): Maddern, Philippa.
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Title : Interpreting Silence: Domestic Violence in the King's Courts in East Anglia, 1422-1442 [The author argues that domestic violence in medieval households was sanctioned when husbands were disciplining their wives, children, or servants. However, subordinates who rebelled were severely punished as were husbands who killed members of their household. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price . University Press of Florida, 2002. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 31 - 56.
Year of Publication: 2002.

11. Record Number: 8079
Author(s): Straus, Barrie Ruth.
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Title : Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales [The author argues that the family relations both in the tales of Griselda and of Custance manifest a profound anxiety about paternity and a need for concealed violence, both physical and psychic. The happy endings do not mask the father's violence and the conflict between the generations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

12. Record Number: 7909
Author(s): Bott, Robin L.
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Title : O, Keep Me from Their Worse Than Killing Lust: Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale" and Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"

Source: Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose . The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Gender and History , 14., 2 (August 2002): Pages 189 - 211.
Year of Publication: 2001.

13. Record Number: 7903
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Title : Reading Chaucer Reading Rape

14. Record Number: 6238
Author(s): Crum, Roger J.
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Title : Controlling Women or Women Controlled? Suggestions for Gender Roles and Visual Culture in the Italian Renaissance Palace ["I suggest that Renaissance husbands may have involved women in the patronage process, the stewardship of material goods, and the education of children through works of art to involve them directly in the family's material wealth and to engender lineage-sustaining loyalty to the marital family. This message would have been reinforced by the themes of humility, chastity, obedience, and dutiful motherhood that characterize the greater part of Renaissance 'cassoni,' 'spalliere,' and domestic devotional works that these women beheld on a daily basis. And, of course, all of these goods were introduced into and helped to shape a palace environment that was itself highly gendered in terms of space, function, and communication." (Page 45)].

Source: Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy. Edited by Sheryl E. Reiss and David G. Wilkins . Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume 54. Truman State University Press, 2001. Gender and History , 14., 2 (August 2002): Pages 37 - 50.
Year of Publication: 2001.

15. Record Number: 4467
Author(s): Menuge, Noël James.
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Title : A Few Home Truths: The Medieval Mother as Guardian in Romance and Law [The author examines the roles of mothers and step-mothers in legal treatises and wardship romances; both genres favor the interests of a patrilineal, primogenitive feudal society by showing family members as untrustworthy and only the lord as reliable].

Source: Medieval Women and the Law. Edited by Noël James Menuge . Boydell Press, 2000. Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 77 - 103.
Year of Publication: 2000.

16. Record Number: 4738
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Title : The Dialogics of Margery Kempe and Her "Book" [using Bakhtin's writings on the dialogic, the author examines the relationship between the authoritative discourse of the Church and the State and Kempe's internal and persuasive voice from Jesus Christ].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 179 - 197.
Year of Publication: 2000.

17. Record Number: 4135
Author(s): Lawless, Catherine.
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Title : A Widow of God? St. Anne and Representations of Widowhood in Fifteenth-century Florence

Source: Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Christine Meek . Four Courts Press, 2000. Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 15 - 42.
Year of Publication: 2000.

18. Record Number: 3937
Author(s): Swett, Katharine W.
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Title : Assessing Patriarchies: Continuity and Change for European Women [The author analyzes five recent books including "Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England" by Judith Bennett and "Celtic Women" by Peter Ellis].

Source: Journal of Women's History (Full Text via Project Muse) 11, 2 (Summer 1999): 224-235. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1999.

19. Record Number: 3672
Author(s): McSheffrey, Shannon.
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Title : Men and Masculinity in Late Medieval London Civic Culture: Governance, Patriarchy, and Reputation [The author argues that both women and men were judged to be disorderly and misgoverned when they misbehaved sexually].

Source: Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray . Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999. Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 243 - 278.
Year of Publication: 1999.

20. Record Number: 3957
Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn.
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Title : Encrypted Messages: Men, Women, and Figurative Language in "Decameron" 5.4 [The author argues that the deeper message of the story concerns the consolidation of male power and the upholding of patriarchal values.]

Source: Philological Quarterly , 77., 1 (Winter 1998): Pages 1 - 13.
Year of Publication: 1998.

21. Record Number: 2068
Author(s): Sydie, R.A.
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Title : The Phallocentric Gaze: Leon Battista Alberti and Visual Art

Source: Journal of Historical Sociology , 10., 3 (September 1997): Pages 310 - 341.
Year of Publication: 1997.

22. Record Number: 3915
Author(s): Fehrenbacher, Richard W.
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Title : Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye: The Theme of Incest in Troilus and Criseyde [The author analyzes patriarchal foundational myths of Troy and the incestuous desire inherent in the exchange of women].

Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997): Pages 341 - 369.
Year of Publication: 1997.

23. Record Number: 2407
Author(s): Bennett, Judith M.
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Title : Confronting Continuity [argues that the medieval period saw much change in women's lives but little transformation in their status in relation to men].

Source: Journal of Women's History 9, 3 (Autumn 1997): 73-94.
Year of Publication: 1997.

24. Record Number: 6837
Author(s): Higgins, Paula.
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Title : Musical "Parents" and Their "Progeny": The Discourse of Creative Patriarchy in Early Modern Europe [The author argues that between 1450 and 1600 musicians developed metaphors of fatherhood and male procreation to describe musical creativity and the relation between master and student. The author advocates a feminist analysis of this elaborate male patrilineage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood. Edited by Jessie Ann Owens and Anthony M. Cummings . Harmonie Park Press, 1997. Pages 169 - 186.
Year of Publication: 1997.

25. Record Number: 3581
Author(s): Newton, Allyson.
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Title : The Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"

Source: Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Pages 63 - 75.
Year of Publication: 1996.

26. Record Number: 3582
Author(s): Sheingorn, Pamela.
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Title : The Maternal Behavior of God: Divine Father as Fantasy Husband

Source: Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Pages 77 - 99.
Year of Publication: 1996.

27. Record Number: 5
Author(s): Clover, Carol J.
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Title : Maiden Warriors and Other Sons

Source: Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society. Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Vickie Ziegler . Boydell Press, 1995. Mediaevalia , 18., ( 1995): Pages 75 - 87. Originally published in Journal of English and Germanic Philology (1986): 35-49
Year of Publication: 1995.

28. Record Number: 1736
Author(s): Rabine, Leslie W.
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Title : Love and the New Patriarchy: "Tristan and Isolde"

Source: Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook. Edited by Joan Tasker Grimbert . Garland Publishing, 1995. Mediaevalia , 18., ( 1995): Pages 37 - 74. Reprinted from Leslie W. Rabine, Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology. University of Michigan Press, 1985.
Year of Publication: 1995.

29. Record Number: 2558
Author(s): Kempton, Daniel.
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Title : Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" and "Trésor de la Cité": Toward a Feminist Scriptural Practice

Source: Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Edited by Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan . State University of New York Press, 1995. Pages 14 - 37.
Year of Publication: 1995.

30. Record Number: 3009
Author(s): Segura Graiño, Cristina.
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Title : Participación de las Mujeres en el Poder Político

Source: Anuario de Estudios Medievales , 25., 2 ( 1995): Pages 449 - 462.
Year of Publication: 1995.

31. Record Number: 1094
Author(s): Giladi, Avner.
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Title : Gender Differences in Child Rearing and Education: Some Preliminary Observations with Reference to Medieval Muslim Thought [contrasts religious writings that offer women some protections and a measure of equality with such social customs as childhood rites, child marriage, and reactions to children's deaths, all cases in which the male was favored over the female].

Source: Al-Qantara , 16., 2 ( 1995): Pages 291 - 308.
Year of Publication: 1995.

32. Record Number: 341
Author(s): Coletti, Theresa.
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Title : Ther Be But Women: Gender Conflict and Gender Identity in the Middle English Innocents Plays [role of mothers versus the male sphere of public authority]

Source: Mediaevalia , 18., ( 1995): Pages 245 - 261. (1995 (for 1992)) Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton
Year of Publication: 1995.

33. Record Number: 3558
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
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Title : Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors in Renaissance Venice [The author argues that unmarried male patricians had a lesser status than their brothers who married and became heads of families; nonetheless bachelors shared in the privileges of the patriarchal society including government offices].

Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994): Pages 73 - 90. Republished in slightly altered form as Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors. By Stanley Chojnacki. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pages 244-256.
Year of Publication: 1994.

34. Record Number: 3562
Author(s): Baswell, Christopher.
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Title : Men in the "Roman d'Eneas": The Construction of Empire [the author argues that the "Roman d'Eneas" is a controlled political and social work that confronts important issues in Angevin society including emergent manhood, patriarchal imperialism, and the limits of feminine power].

35. Record Number: 3560
Author(s): Spiegel, Harriet.
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Title : The Male Animal in the "Fables" of Marie de France [The author explores both female and male worlds in both the public and private spheres].

36. Record Number: 3412
Author(s): Kinoshita, Sharon.
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Title : Cherchez la Femme: Feminist Criticism and Marie de France's "Lai de Lanval" [The author argues that the lai demonstrates its feminism by rejecting feudal and chivalric values].

Source: Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994): Pages 263 - 273.
Year of Publication: 1994.

37. Record Number: 10741
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Title : Marriage, Family, and Patriarchy in Douai, 1350-1600 [The author explores the variety of documentary sources available in Douai for understanding gender differences in marriage and inheritance. Over the time span under consideration, maritalm property arrangements changed from favoring the couple to protecting the lineage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Marriage and Social Mobility in the Late Middle Ages/Marriage et mobilité sociale au bas moyen-âge. Handelingen van het colloquieum gehouden te Gent op 18 april 1988. Edited by W. Prevenier Studia Historica Gandensia . Department of History of the Arts Faculty of the University of Gent, 1992. Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994): Pages 7 - 39. Second printing, revised and corrected by the editor
Year of Publication: 1992.

38. Record Number: 1514
Author(s): Sperberg-McQueen, M. R.
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Title : Whose Body Is It? Chaste Strategies and the Reinforcement of Patriarchy in Three Plays by Hrotswitha von Gandersheim ["The Martyrdom of the Holy Virgins Agape, Chione, and Irena," "The Fall and Repentance of Mary, Niece of the Hermit Abraham," and "The Resurrection of Drusiana and of Callimachus"].

Source: Women in German Yearbook , 8., ( 1992): Pages 47 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1992.

39. Record Number: 10246
Author(s): Bremner, Eluned.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction [The author compares selected twentieth-century analyses of Kempe’s “Book” (written by literary critics) to episodes in the “Book” itself, in which Margery faces criticism from various figures of authority. Both the modern critics outside the text and the clerical figures within the “Book” reinforce patriarchal structures in response to Kempe, who challenges female suppression and speaks to establish her autonomy and power. Despite critics’ attempts to disempower her, Kempe refuses to accept the marginalization of female sexuality, crosses traditional gender role boundaries, and determines her own voice and social role through speech and writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Women in German Yearbook , 8., ( 1992): Pages 117 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1992.

40. Record Number: 10251
Author(s): Wilson, Janet.
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Title : Margery and Alison: Women on Top [The author reads the fifteenth-century mystic Margery Kempe and the fictional character of Alison (Chaucer’s Wife of Bath) as flamboyant women who both cross social boundaries and disrupt social norms. Although their voices are mediated through men (scribes in the case of Margery and the author Chaucer in the case of Alison), these women can be read as examples of the carnivalesque: They both challenge patriarchal authority and subvert social hierarchies through their parodic or theatrical speech. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Women in German Yearbook , 8., ( 1992): Pages 223 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1992.

41. Record Number: 11222
Author(s): Saller, Richard.
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Title : European Family History and Roman Law

Source: Continuity and Change , 6., 3 (December 1991): Pages 335 - 346.
Year of Publication: 1991.

42. Record Number: 11798
Author(s): Ciletti, Elena.
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Title : Patriarchal Ideology in the Renaissance Iconography of Judith [The author suggests that, in the medieval and Renaissance periods, artists and interpreters alike used Judith to produce the patriarchal categories of chastity and sexual license. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance. Edited by Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari . Cornell University Press, 1991. Continuity and Change , 6., 3 (December 1991): Pages 35 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1991.

43. Record Number: 13055
Author(s): Sherberg, Michael.
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Title : The Patriarch's Pleasure and the Frametale Crisis: "Decameron" IV-V [The author argues that the various storytellers react to Filostrato's theme for Day IV which reinstitutes the male order and denies women any choice in love. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Romance Quarterly , 38., 2 (May 1991): Pages 227 - 238.
Year of Publication: 1991.

44. Record Number: 12859
Author(s): Green, Monica H.
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Title : Female Sexuality in the Medieval West [The author argues that sexuality may have meant something fundamentally different to women than to men in the Middle Ages, and suggests that we question whether our methodologies are adequate for the task of constructing a history of how sexuality was experienced by medieval women, rather than a history of how female sexuality was viewed by men. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990): Pages 127 - 158.
Year of Publication: 1990.

45. Record Number: 11192
Author(s): Harris, Barbara J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Property, Power, and Personal Relations: Elite Mothers and Sons in Yorkist and Early Tudor England [Women were often marginalized by patriarchal power structures that placed the father at the head of the family, but the birth of a son often elevated the wife’s position. Since the first son was greatly valued in a system of primogenitural inheritance, noble mothers often had close emotional ties to their sons. The political and social future of the family often rested on the mother’s ability to manage the household, display the family’s wealth and status, and negotiate marriages and other alliances for the family’s children. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Full Text via JSTOR) 15, 3 (Spring 1990): 606-632. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1990.