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Creator
Date
2011
Location
New York,
New York (State)
United States
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xvi, 257 p.
Language
English
Size
22 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 264899
Folger call number: PR421 .B63 2011
Folger holdings ID: 350540
Folger call number: PR421 .B63 2011
Folger holdings ID: 350540
Summary
"This book has two objectives: to demonstrate that, despite extensive evidence indicating a wholesale suppression of early women's speech, women were actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicitous with patriarchal ideology, and yet subversive in undermining that ideology. Further, this book dissociates early women's self-expression from, solely, licentiousness by greatly expanding the scope, the consequences, and the cultural forces of early women's speech"--Provided by publisher
Notes
Edition
1st ed
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
The control and criminalization of women's speech -- The "imagined woman" -- Women, conversation, crime, and the courts -- The assembly of ladies : rebelling in Eden -- Code-switching : male crossing into female speech domain -- Margery Kempe : "I grab the microphone and move my body" : volatile speech, volatile bodies -- Conclusion
Also known as
Extended title: Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England : speaking as a woman / M.C. Bodden
Subjects
Related names
author: Bodden, Mary-Catherine