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Record Number:
9637
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Straus , Barrie Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Freedom Through Renunciation? Women's Voices, Women's Bodies, and the Phallic Order [female literary characters who want to abstain from sex].
Source:
Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler. University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pages 245 - 264.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Body
Chastity in Literature
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Knight's Tale
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Parliament of Fowls
Kempe, Margery, Mystic
Literature- Prose
Literature- Verse
Mystics
Sexuality in Literature
Women in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14- 15
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
Author's Affiliation:
University of Windsor
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0802007805