Gendering the Master Narrative by Mary C Erler

Gendering the Master Narrative by Mary C Erler

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Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing...

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Gendering the Master Narrative by Mary C Erler

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing...

Interdisciplinary essays on the exercise and transmission of female power in medieval society

* The Chronicle of Higher Education *

By entitling this collection Gendering the Master Narrative, editors Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski intend to prepare readers for the fact that the essays supplement the story of men's access to and wielding of power in European Middle Ages with the story of women's.

-- Conrad Leyser, University of Manchester * American Historical Review *

Mary C. Erler is Professor of English and Maryanne Kowaleski is Professor of History at Fordham University.

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ISBN 13 9780801488306
ISBN 10 0801488303
Title Gendering the Master Narrative
Author Mary C Erler
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cornell University Press
Year published 2003-05-01
Number of pages 280
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