Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2981
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Bousmar , Eric.
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  • Title: Neither Equality nor Radical Oppression: The Elasticity of Women's Roles in the Late Medieval Low Countries [The author argues that in the Low Countries female subjugation was moderated by the frequent practice of "taking over" which allowed women to substitute for absent husbands or fathers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries.  Edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Suydam.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  Pages 109 - 127.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Gender Sexuality Women's Status
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  • Geographic Area: Low Countries
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels
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  • Year of Publication: 2004.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0312293321