IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1523: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Women Inhabiting the Grey Zone
Thursday 16 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship |
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| Organiser: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
| Paper 1523-a | 'Ne bið swylc cwenlic þeaw idese to efanne': Thryth Transgressing the Boundaries (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1523-b | 'For I am a woman, leued, febille, & freylle': Discourse Strategies to Avoid Suspicion in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1523-c | When Heresy is Orthodox: The Theological Innovations of a Woman Preacher, Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534 (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The papers included in this session will each interrogate some of the ways in which the binary of gender interacted with and impacted upon the labelling of literary and/or spiritual women as either orthodox or heretical in the Middle Ages. The session will also assess the extent to which the deconstruction of traditional gender categories by the woman and/or her writing allowed for a 'safe' occupation of the grey zone between orthodoxy and heresy. |