Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing /
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- The origins of womanhood
- Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood
- Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis
- Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid
- Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe
- The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.