Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-29661-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3018 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dooley, A.

Sheehan, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Ann Dooley and Sarah Sheehan 1. Travelers and Settled Folk: Women, Honor, and Shame in Medieval Ireland; Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha 2. Sex in the civitas: Early Irish Intellectuals and their Vision of Women; Catherine Swift 3. Looking for 'Mr. Right' in Tochmarc Becfhola; Joanne Findon 4. Playing for Power: Macha Mongrúad's Sovereign Performance; Amy C. Mulligan 5. Feasts for the Eyes: Visuality and Desire in the Ulster Cycle; Sarah Sheehan 6. They Kept their Skirts On: Gender-Bending Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography; Judith L. Bishop 7. Human Frontiers in Medieval Irish Religious Literature; Jennifer Karyn Reid 8. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Late Medieval Irish Rómánsaíochta; Giselle Gos 9. Speaking with Forked Tongues: Gender and Narrative in the Acallam; Ann Dooley

Über Autor(innen)

Judith L. Bishop, Mills College, USA
Ann Dooley, University of Toronto, Canada
Joanne Findon, Trent University, Canada
Giselle Gos, Harvard University, USA
Amy C. Mulligan, University of Bergen, Norway
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Jennifer Karyn Reid, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sarah Sheehan, Independent Scholar, Toronto
Catherine Swift, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland