Pearman, Tory Vandeventer
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature
1. Introduction: Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body
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2. (Dis)Pleasure and (Dis)Ability: The Topos of Reproduction in
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3. Physical Education: Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the
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4. Refiguring Disability: Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in
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5. Embodied Transcendence: Disability and the Procreative Body in the
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6. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Gender Studies, Classical and Antique Literature, British and Irish Literature
- Author(s)
- Pearman, Tory Vandeventer
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Page amount
- 220 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230117563
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-28955-4