Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 10933
Author(s): Osborn, Marijane
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Title : Authorship and Sexual/Allegorical Violence in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" [The author argues that while Jean de Meun's "Rose" calls attention to authorship and authority, it supports the privileges of patriarchy and the subordination of women. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 628 - 659.
Year of Publication: 2004.
2. Record Number: 7271
Author(s): McCracken, Peggy.
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Title : Engendering Sacrifice: Blood, Lineage, and Infanticide in Old French Literature [The author analyzes the theme of infanticide in Chretien de Troyes' "Philomena," "Ami et Amile," accounts of Abraham and Isaac, and "Jourdain de Blaye." The author argues that the child's death takes on a different meaning according to the gender of the sacrificer. When the father kills the child, the blood is paternal blood and represents a sacrifice for loyalty or for God. When the mother kills the child, the blood is maternal, associated with the impurities of childbirth, and is done only as an act of revenge. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 55 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2002.
3. Record Number: 8079
Author(s): Straus, Barrie Ruth.
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Title : Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales [The author argues that the family relations both in the tales of Griselda and of Custance manifest a profound anxiety about paternity and a need for concealed violence, both physical and psychic. The happy endings do not mask the father's violence and the conflict between the generations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.   Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price .   University Press of Florida, 2002. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 122 - 138.
Year of Publication: 2002.
4. Record Number: 7909
Author(s): Bott, Robin L.
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Title : O, Keep Me from Their Worse Than Killing Lust: Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale" and Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"
Source: Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.   Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 189 - 211.
Year of Publication: 2001.
5. Record Number: 7903
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Title : Reading Chaucer Reading Rape
Source: Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.   Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 21 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2001.
6. Record Number: 3957
Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn.
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Title : Encrypted Messages: Men, Women, and Figurative Language in "Decameron" 5.4 [The author argues that the deeper message of the story concerns the consolidation of male power and the upholding of patriarchal values.]
Source: Philological Quarterly , 77., 1 (Winter 1998):  Pages 1 - 13.
Year of Publication: 1998.
7. Record Number: 3915
Author(s): Fehrenbacher, Richard W.
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Title : Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye: The Theme of Incest in Troilus and Criseyde [The author analyzes patriarchal foundational myths of Troy and the incestuous desire inherent in the exchange of women].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 341 - 369.
Year of Publication: 1997.
8. Record Number: 3581
Author(s): Newton, Allyson.
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Title : The Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"
Source: Medieval Mothering.   Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1996. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 63 - 75.
Year of Publication: 1996.
9. Record Number: 3562
Author(s): Baswell, Christopher.
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Title : Men in the "Roman d'Eneas": The Construction of Empire [the author argues that the "Roman d'Eneas" is a controlled political and social work that confronts important issues in Angevin society including emergent manhood, patriarchal imperialism, and the limits of feminine power].
Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7.   University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 149 - 168.
Year of Publication: 1994.
10. Record Number: 3560
Author(s): Spiegel, Harriet.
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Title : The Male Animal in the "Fables" of Marie de France [The author explores both female and male worlds in both the public and private spheres].
Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7.   University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 111 - 126.
Year of Publication: 1994.
11. Record Number: 10246
Author(s): Bremner, Eluned.
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Title : Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction [The author compares selected twentieth-century analyses of Kempe’s “Book” (written by literary critics) to episodes in the “Book” itself, in which Margery faces criticism from various figures of authority. Both the modern critics outside the text and the clerical figures within the “Book” reinforce patriarchal structures in response to Kempe, who challenges female suppression and speaks to establish her autonomy and power. Despite critics’ attempts to disempower her, Kempe refuses to accept the marginalization of female sexuality, crosses traditional gender role boundaries, and determines her own voice and social role through speech and writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 117 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1992.
12. Record Number: 13055
Author(s): Sherberg, Michael.
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Title : The Patriarch's Pleasure and the Frametale Crisis: "Decameron" IV-V [The author argues that the various storytellers react to Filostrato's theme for Day IV which reinstitutes the male order and denies women any choice in love. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Romance Quarterly , 38., 2 (May 1991):  Pages 227 - 238.
Year of Publication: 1991.