Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into
aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.
Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views
and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our
perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding
Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with
new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies,
sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The
volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well as
German, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes
of feminist analysis, primarily in medieval studies but with
extensions into early modernism. Several interrogate the ethics of
feminist hermeneutics, the function of women characters in various
literary genres, and so-called "natural" binaries - sex/gender,
male/female, East/West, etc. - that undergird our vision of the
world. Others investigate learned women and notions of female
readership, authorship, and patronage in the production and
reception of texts and manuscripts. Still others look at bodies -
male male, female, neither, and both - and how clothes cover and
socially encode them. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies is a
tribute to E. Jane Burns, whose important work has proven
foundational to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Old
French feminist studies. Through her scholarship, teaching, and
leadership in co-founding the Society for Medieval Feminist
Scholarship, Burns has inspired a new generation of feminist
scholars. Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St.
Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City; Daniel E. O'Sullivan
is Professor of French at the University of Mississippi.
Contributors: Cynthia J. Brown, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Kristin
L. Burr, Madeline H. Caviness, Laine E. Doggett, Sarah-Grace
Heller,Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom
Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen,
Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer
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