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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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Main Authors: Bodden, M. C
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: New Middle Ages
Subjects:
Women > Language > History > To 1500 > England
Women > Social conditions > England
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval > c 1500 to c 1600 > England
Gender studies: women > c 1500 to c 1600 > England
British & Irish history > c 1500 to c 1600 > England
Medieval history > c 1500 to c 1600 > England
Literature
Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337657
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230618763, 2011.
Carrier Form: 272 p.
ISBN: 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'.

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