Bodden, Mary-Catherine. Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England : speaking as a woman

Folger bibliographic ID: 264899
Folger call number: PR421 .B63 2011
Folger holdings ID: 350540

"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

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

Extended title: Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England : speaking as a woman / M.C. Bodden

English literature Women Sex role Women's rights Equality LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain HISTORY / Medieval SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory

author: Bodden, Mary-Catherine