Woman Defamed and Woman Defended
An Anthology of Medieval Texts
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 24 September 1992
- ISBN 9780198710394
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 215x137x24 mm
- Weight 462 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp black and white plates, 1 halftone 0
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Short description:
Medieval views on women have had a profound impact on the status of women in the West. This is the first sourcebook of medieval writings on women, presenting together key misogynistic works of the period, together with a surprising range of early texts championing women. It will be of great value for students and scholars of women's studies, and of medieval and later culture.
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`It is impossible / That any clerk wol speke good of wyves.' Behind the words of Chaucer's Wife of Bath lies a vast corpus of medieval misogynistic writings. These texts, which range from those of the Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular literature, have had a profound effect on the status of women in the West.
Yet, despite the recent surge of investigations into women's situation, no one book has sought to collect together the key voices of medieval antifeminism, let alone to present the voices sometimes raised, even at that epoch, in defence of women. The urgent need for a single and substantial sourcebook of these materials in modern translation is met for the first time in this volume, which includes an introduction, notes, and commentary. The accessibility of the better-known texts here (from Jerome to Walter Map; from Héloise and Abelard to Christine de Pizan and Chaucer) will be welcomed by those engaged in medieval and women's studies; the lesser-known writings concerning for instance the sexual `double standard', and women and the priesthood, will provide unexpected discoveries for specialists and beginners alike. Indeed, a surprising range of early texts championing women - including material never previously available in translation - is here represented.
All those concerned with women's studies and with medieval and later culture (European as well as English) will find Woman Defamed and Woman Defended fascinating to read as well as a useful resource.
`fascinating anthology ... a tremendous repository of reference material ... A steady, cumulative reading of the anti-feminist tracts in Woman Defamed is an opportunity to peer into the distant and past and find it disturbingly familiar.'
The Women's Review of Books
