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Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England

Speaking as a Woman

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  • © 2011

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  1. M. C. Bodden
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Control and Criminalization of Women’s Speech

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 7-36

  4. The “Imagined Woman”

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 37-55

  5. Women, Conversation, Crime, and the Courts

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 57-78

  6. The Assembly of Ladies: Rebelling in Eden

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 79-96

  7. Code-Switching: Male Crossing into Female Speech Domain

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 97-119

  8. Margery Kempe: “I Grab the Microphone and Move My Body”— Volatile Speech, Volatile Bodies

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 121-141

  9. Conclusion

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 143-146

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 147-257
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Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.

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"Against a background of traditional patriarchal anxieties and constraints in regard to women's speech, Bodden's important new study explores the transgressive nature of women's voices, the cultural authorization of bold speech, and agency that women were able to exercise especially within the law courts and in mysticism. This insightful study will be of particular interest to scholars in Medieval and Early European Studies and Women's Studies." - Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Professor of History in the Department of Liberal Studies, DCS, and Medieval and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Bodden offers the reader abeautifully conceptualized analysis of the engendering politics of language in medieval and early modern England. In so doing,herbook joins the ranks of such classics as Michel de Certeau on mystic speech and Helen Solterer on disputing women.In engaging with the serpent, she emerges as a serpent whisperer." - Kathleen Biddick,Professor of History, Temple University

About the author

M.C. BODDEN is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, USA.

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