Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / Tara Williams.
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- 9780814270783
- Women in literature
- Women and literature
- Sex role in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- English literature -- Middle English
- Litterature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes dans la litterature
- Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature
- Maternite dans la litterature
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- Women in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Women and literature -- History -- To 1500
The origins of womanhood -- Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood -- Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis -- Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid -- Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe -- The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.
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