Troubled vision: gender, sexuality, and sight in medieval text and image

Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Bringing together a...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2004
Series:The new middle ages
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Summary:Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality.
Item Description:Conference papers presented at Seeing Gender organized by the Gender and Medieval Studies Group in London in January 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:viii, 243 p. ill. 22 cm
ISBN:1403963436

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