IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1313: W.O.W.: Wise, Old Women in Medieval Culture
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies |
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Organiser: | Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Opleiding Nederlandse Taal en Cultuur, Universiteit Leiden |
Moderator/Chair: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Paper 1313-a | The Prime of their Lives (Language: English) Index terms: Women's Studies |
Paper 1313-b | Negotiating Institutional Acceptance: Dominican Women's Promotion of the Cults of their Fellow Religious (Language: English) Index terms: Women's Studies |
Paper 1313-c | Sur le versant de l'âge: sainte Hildebourge au reclusoir ou la conquête de la liberté (Language: Français) |
Abstract | This session argues that women, who had reached maturity and were beyond fertility, but were not yet in old age - women who were past forty, that is - constitute a separate category for historical and literary analysis. They may even constitute a sex of their own, if we acknowledge that there can exist more than two sexes (m/f), such as a third sex of homosexuals and a fourth sex of adolescents |