Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 10822
Author(s): Góngora, María Eugenia.
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Title : Feminea Forma and "Virga": Two Images of Incarnation in Hildegard of Bingen's "Symophonia"

Source: The Voice of Silence: Women's Literacy in a Men's Church. Edited by Thérèse de Hemptinne and María Eugenia Góngora Medieval Church Studies . Brepols, 2004. Pages 23 - 36.
Year of Publication: 2004.

2. Record Number: 10853
Author(s): Keen, Catherine M.
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Title : Sex and the Medieval City: Viewing the Body Politic from Exile in Early Italian Verse [Keen examines poems by four authors in exile (Dante, Cino da Pistoia, Pietro dei Faitinelli, and Niccolò del Rosso) in which the natal city is depicted as a beautiful woman; sometimes she is to be pitied, but other times she is hateful. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pages 155 - 171.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 4620
Author(s): Bynum, Caroline Walker.
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Title : Men's Use of Female Symbols [the author argues that pardoxically men, powerful and clerical, needed to become weak and human as "spiritual" women for salvation; the author concludes in part: "Whatever explanation one proposes, it is clear that women's way of using and living symbols was different from men's. The differences lay not merely in what symbols were chosen but also in how symbols related to self. Where men stressed male/ female contrasts and used imagery of reversal to express their dependence on God, women expressed their dependence on God in imagery at least partly drawn from their own gender and avoided symbolic reversals." (Pages 288-289)].

Source: Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings. Edited by Lester K. Little and Barbara H. Rosenwein . Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Pages 277 - 289. Originally published in Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, 1987. Pages 282-294.
Year of Publication: 1998.

4. Record Number: 3597
Author(s): Federico, Sylvia.
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Title : A Fourteenth-Century Erotics of Politics: London as a Feminine New Troy

Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 19., ( 1997): Pages 121 - 155.
Year of Publication: 1997.

5. Record Number: 10287
Author(s): Johnson-Haddad, Miranda.
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Title : Like the Moon It Renews Itself: the Female Body as Text in Dante, Ariosto, and Tasso [The author considers the representations of female bodies in three medieval and renaissance Italian poems. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Stanford Italian Review , 11., 40180 ( 1992): Pages 203 - 215.
Year of Publication: 1992.

6. Record Number: 10522
Author(s): Frugoni, Chiara.
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Title : The Imagined Woman [The author provides an overview of visual representations of women in the medieval Christian West. Women were represented in a variety of art forms (including manuscripts, paintings, frescos, and sculptures). These images of women reflected perceived expectations of their roles (as virgins, wives, or widows) and reinforced Church doctrine on the sexual regulation of women, women’s roles within marriage, and women’s perceived duties within the domestic and religious spheres. The author argues that most of these representations are misogynistic; although women sometimes appear as saints (like the Virgin Mary) they often take the form of sinners and temptresses (like Eve). The author also examines how the visual arts use women as personifications of virtues and vices or other abstract concepts. In addition, the author argues that images provide insights into women’s private and daily lives, as well as the nature of women’s literacy and the variety of their occupations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: A History of Women in the West. Volume 2: Silences of the Middle Ages. Edited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 19., ( 1997): Pages 336 - 422.
Year of Publication: 1992.

7. Record Number: 10732
Author(s): Bynum, Caroline Walker.
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Title : Women’s Stories, Women’s Symbols: A Critique of Victor Turner’s Theory of Liminality [The author critiques Turner’s theories of liminality, arguing that women are fully liminal only to men. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. Caroline Walker Bynum . MIT Press, 1991. Stanford Italian Review , 11., 40180 ( 1992): Pages 27 - 52.
Year of Publication: 1991.

8. Record Number: 10736
Author(s): Bynum, Caroline Walker.
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Title : “...And Woman His Humanity”: Female Imagery in the Religious Writing of the Later Middle Ages [The essay argues that late medieval writers used gendered imagery in different ways: while male writers saw gender as dichotomous, women writers often used the same imagery to represent a genderless humanity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].