Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3486
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): McNamara , Jo Ann.
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  • Title: An Unresolved Syllogism: The Search For a Christian Gender System [The author traces the changing values of the sexes from late Rome to the Ninth Century demonstrating how gender theories enhanced and then diminished women's moral position in relation to that of men].
  • 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.  Pages 1 - 24.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Chastity Gender Monasticism Sexuality
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  • Geographic Area: General
  • Century: 5- 6- 7- 8- 9
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  • Author's Affiliation: Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York [Emerita]
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  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815330308