The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero : Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature /
In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the contex...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2010]
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Colección: | The Middle Ages Series
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Only Women Bleed
- 2 The Amenorrhea of War
- 3 The Gender of Sacrifice
- 4 Menstruation and Monstrous Birth
- 5 The Scene of Parturition
- 6 The Grail and Its Hosts
- Conclusion: Bleeding for Love
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments