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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCracken, Peggy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Colección:The Middle Ages Series
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  • 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