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Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.1, Summer 2018
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.1, Summer 2018
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.1, Summer 2018
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.1, Summer 2018
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Not A Conclusion To Gender And Species, Ecofeminist Intersections, Lesley Kordecki
Not A Conclusion To Gender And Species, Ecofeminist Intersections, Lesley Kordecki
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Does It Have To Be About Women?, Carolynn Van Dyke
Introduction: Does It Have To Be About Women?, Carolynn Van Dyke
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The six essays on medieval texts in the "Gender and Species" cluster (or Special Issue) demonstrate the power of combining feminist analysis with critical animal studies.
La Femme Bisclavret: The Female Of The Species?, Alison Langdon
La Femme Bisclavret: The Female Of The Species?, Alison Langdon
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Conventional humanist readings of Bisclavret approach the lai from an anthropocentric perspective, in which animal nature is merely an allegory for human nature. In such a reading, the werewolf protagonist is a foil for his much more beastly if wholly human wife, with the underlying assumption being that animal nature is something to be rejected. That the marker of Lady Bisclavret's bestial nature—her noselessness—is transmitted through the generations of only female descendants seems to echo medieval antifeminist truisms about female perfidy. However, approaching the lai from a critical animal studies perspective can help dismantle conventional assumptions about the privileged status …
Questioning Gynocentric Utopia: Nature As Addict In “Description Of Cookeham”, Liberty S. Stanavage
Questioning Gynocentric Utopia: Nature As Addict In “Description Of Cookeham”, Liberty S. Stanavage
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In her 1610 “The Description of Cookeham,” Amelia Lanyer presents Cookeham as a space in which women and nature exist in poetry-inducing harmony until the intervention of man. Lanyer’s poem highlights the deference of both the animals (who “sport . . . in her eye” and “attend”), and the landscape to Clifford: the hills “descend” to meet her footstep and then raise themselves again at her whim. This alignment frequently leads critics to describe Cookeham as a utopian feminist landscape that aligns women and nature against an antagonistic masculine influence.
However, this utopian vision dramatizes a landscape that is not …
Belligerent Mothers And The Power Of Feminine Speech In _The Owl And The Nightingale_, Wendy A. Matlock
Belligerent Mothers And The Power Of Feminine Speech In _The Owl And The Nightingale_, Wendy A. Matlock
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The Middle English poem The Owl and the Nightingale famously records the dispute between a hostile Nightingale and a bellicose Owl. Within that dialogue the birds reproduce themselves in word and egg, in rhetoric and body. Their digressions on bodies and scatology and on childbearing and childrearing become fertilizer that expands maternal authority into public, intellectual discourse. In addition to calling forth their own communicative powers, both characters aggressively recount narratives best known from the work of Marie de France, a voice feminist scholars have successfully restored to the canon, to condemn their foe. In this light, I argue, The …
Women And Other Beasts: A Feminist Perspective On Medieval Bestiaries, Carolynn Van Dyke
Women And Other Beasts: A Feminist Perspective On Medieval Bestiaries, Carolynn Van Dyke
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Gender and species intersect in the subject-matter, readership, and authorship of medieval beast-books. First, androcentric norms result in inconsistent gender references to species: the grammatically feminine eagle (Aquila) is represented as a stern father, the masculine turtledove (Turtura) as a clinging wife. More broadly, male exemplars represent nearly all species regardless of grammatical gender.
Second, both discursive norms and bibliographic practice presumed an exclusively male readership for the bestiary, but external and internal evidence suggest that bourgeois mothers used bestiaries in educating their children.
Third, a more radical intervention in androcentric bestiary norms is an instance …
Witches And Pagans: Women In European Folk Religion, 700-1100, Melissa Ridley Elmes
Witches And Pagans: Women In European Folk Religion, 700-1100, Melissa Ridley Elmes
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Joan, The Fair Maid Of Kent, Samantha Katz Seal
Joan, The Fair Maid Of Kent, Samantha Katz Seal
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Pleasant Nights, Sally A. Livingston
The Pleasant Nights, Sally A. Livingston
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.53, No.2 2018
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.53, No.2 2018
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
“Ubi Et Est Habitatio Sororum Et Mansio Fratrum”: Doppelklöster Und Ähnliche Klostergemeinschaften Im Mittelalterichen Österreich (Diözese Passau In Den Ausdehnungen Des 13. Jahrhunderts), Lucy Barnhouse
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Clare Of Assisi And The Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, And Resistance, Mary Anne Gonzales
Clare Of Assisi And The Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, And Resistance, Mary Anne Gonzales
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.53, No.2 2018
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.53, No.2 2018
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Simon De Montfort Et Le Gouvernement : Statut Des Femmes Dans Les Statuts De Pamiers (Art. 46) Avant La Magna Carta, Marjolaine Raguin-Barthelmebs
Simon De Montfort Et Le Gouvernement : Statut Des Femmes Dans Les Statuts De Pamiers (Art. 46) Avant La Magna Carta, Marjolaine Raguin-Barthelmebs
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Promulgated at Pamiers (Languedoc, France), 1stDecember 1212 by Simon de Montfort after its first great victory during the Albigensian Crusade, those Statutes (juridical texts) are known as the introductory act for the Coutume of Paris in Languedoc, and more specifically regarding heirs rights. Redacted for the administration of newly conquest territories, the establishment of peace and to promote catholic faith against heresy and Languedocians owners of the land, theses Statutes dispose on women in their three final articles. More particularly, the article 46 concerns nobles and heirs women and decides, thanks to matrimony institution, who (and how) they …
Empress Adelheid And Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership And The Foundation Of European Society, Constance H. Berman
Empress Adelheid And Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership And The Foundation Of European Society, Constance H. Berman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Medicine Beyond Doctors: Aphrodisiac Recipes In Tenth-Century Medicine And Cuisine, Shireen Hamza
Medicine Beyond Doctors: Aphrodisiac Recipes In Tenth-Century Medicine And Cuisine, Shireen Hamza
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Reading The Bible In The Middle Ages, Catherine S. Cox
Reading The Bible In The Middle Ages, Catherine S. Cox
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
England In Europe: English Royal Women And Literary Patronage, C.1000–C.1150,, Mary Dockray-Miller
England In Europe: English Royal Women And Literary Patronage, C.1000–C.1150,, Mary Dockray-Miller
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, And Clerical Masculinity In Fourteenth-Century Catalunya, G. Geltner
Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, And Clerical Masculinity In Fourteenth-Century Catalunya, G. Geltner
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Silk Industries Of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, And Gendered Experience, Margaret Goehring
The Silk Industries Of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, And Gendered Experience, Margaret Goehring
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Textiles, Text And Intertext: Essays In Honour Of Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Laura Diener
Textiles, Text And Intertext: Essays In Honour Of Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Laura Diener
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Epic Of The Commander Dhat Al-Himma, Melanie Magidow
Epic Of The Commander Dhat Al-Himma, Melanie Magidow
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Berhtgyth's Letters To Balthard, Kathryn Maude
Berhtgyth's Letters To Balthard, Kathryn Maude
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Yde And Olive, Mounawar Abbouchi
Yde And Olive, Mounawar Abbouchi
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.