Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 8482
Author(s): Kay, Sarah.
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Title : Women's Body of Knowledge: Epistemology and Misogyny in the "Romance of the Rose" [The author situates Jean de Meun's epistemology and misogyny within the intellectual currents and direct literary sources of the "Roman de la Rose," including Boethius, Alan de Lille, and the neo-Aristotelians. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Framing Medieval Bodies.   Edited by Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin .   Manchester University Press, 1994.  Pages 211 - 235.
Year of Publication: 1994.
2. Record Number: 5834
Author(s): Tarbin, Stephanie.
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Title : Knowledge and Gender: The "Malleus Malificarum" of 1485 [The author argues that the "Malleus" equates the Church with masculine power and knowledge while witchcraft, female nature, and devils all share the same negative characteristics].
Source: Sexuality and Gender in History: Selected Essays.   Edited by Penelope Hetherington and Philippa Maddern .   Centre for Western Australian History, University of Western Australia, 1993.  Pages 45 - 62.
Year of Publication: 1993.
3. Record Number: 8723
Author(s): Moi, Toril.
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Title : She Died Because She Came Too Late ...: Knowledge, Doubles and Death in Thomas's "Tristan" [The author discusses Thomas' version of the Tristan story, using psychoanalytic theory to analyze modes of knowledge and looking at knowledge's relationship to passion and death. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 4., 1 (Spring 1992):  Pages 105 - 133.
Year of Publication: 1992.
4. Record Number: 7344
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Title : Privileged Knowledge: St. Cecilia and the Alchemist in the "Canterbury Tales" [The author reads the "Second Nun's Tale" against the Alchemist's Tale in order to explore Chaucer's interest in the "epistemology of artistic transformation." Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: Chaucer Review , 27., 1 ( 1992):  Pages 87 - 96.
Year of Publication: 1992.
5. Record Number: 8722
Author(s): Burns, E. Jane.
Contributor(s):
Title : Knowing Women: Female Orifices in Old French Farce and Fabliau [The author discusses the "lack" of men's knowledge about women in the French fabliau, and looks at the female voices in that tradition which link women's knowledge to pleasure, and suggests that female pleasure can be known, though it remains purposely concealed. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 4., 1 (Spring 1992):  Pages 81 - 104.
Year of Publication: 1992.
6. Record Number: 11723
Author(s): Lichtmann, Maria R.
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Title : Julian of Norwich and the Ontology of the Feminine [The author argues that Julian understands God through principles of the feminine. This includes the love and compassion of motherhood, the sensuality of the female body, and the safe enclosure of the womb. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Studia Mystica , 13., 40212 ( 1990):  Pages 53 - 65.
Year of Publication: 1990.