Language as the site of revolt in medieval and early modern England Speaking as a woman /
This book makes the provocative argument 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 simultaneously complicitous with patriarchal ideology and subversive in undermin...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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New Middle Ages
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337657 |
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This book makes the provocative argument 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 simultaneously complicitous with patriarchal ideology and subversive in undermining that ideology. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230618763, 2011. |
Carrier Form: | 272 p. |
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9780230618763 9780230337657 : 0230337651 : |
CLC: | I712.45 |
Contents: | Idle Talk and the Criminalization of Women's Speech The Imagined Woman Women, Conversation, Crime, and the Courts Staged Conversations Code-Switching: Male Crossing into Female Speech Domain Margery Kempe: 'I grab the microphone and move my body'. |