Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England

By Mary-Catherine Bodden

Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Women, Equality, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sex role, Early works to 1800, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Women, history, middle ages, 500-1500, History and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English literature, HISTORY / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Women's rights, Women, great britain, Terminology, History

Description: "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"--