Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England : speaking as a woman / M.C. Bodden.

Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England : speaking as a woman / M.C. Bodden.

1st ed.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xvi, 257 p. ; 22 cm

The new Middle Ages

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The control and criminalization of women's speech
The "imagined woman"
Women, conversation, crime, and the courts
The assembly of ladies : rebelling in Eden
Code-switching : male crossing into female speech domain
Margery Kempe : "I grab the microphone and move my body" : volatile speech, volatile bodies
Conclusion.

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

PR421 .B63 2011