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Helen M. Jewell

Autore di Women in Medieval England

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Helen M. Jewell, formerly Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Liverpool

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I picked up this rather slim introductory volume to help me improve my knowledge of continental women's history, and to perhaps highlight some possible areas of comparison, before I start in on my own thesis. (I focus much more on Gaelic/Anglo-Irish women's history). As straight women's history it's fine, if lacking in much analysis, and the opening chapter on the more recent historiography was useful in pointing me towards some other texts that might help me.

There were parts of the rest of it which irritated me a lot, though. The author seems to take a dim view of gender--as opposed to women's--history, and between that and certain rather problematic terminology she uses to describe issues of ethnicity ("the [Anglo-Saxons] from the start bred from women of the dominated race" stated by page five? This you're writing in 2007? Seriously?) and gender (in her conclusion, she talks about the gendered disadvantages faced by women being framed by medieval contemporaries as being seen as "protective and for the women's good, as it often was." Seriously?), she strikes me as an unrepentant second-waver. Which would be why I wouldn't advocate giving this as a textbook to undergrads without a lot of disclaiming Post It notes stuck all over it.… (altro)
 
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siriaeve | Jun 13, 2009 |
I actually found the content of this rather thin, and often repetitive. The author seems to have based it on only a few, fairly well-known secondary sources (such as the Pastons, Margery Kempe). It does syntheisise those quite well under various themes e.g. rural women, urban women, religious women, but it obviously is lacking in detail.

However the writing style is easily digested for an 'academic' work and each chapter has a useful summary, which makes it a useful introduction to the facets of women's lives which were covered.… (altro)
 
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antisyzygy | Sep 16, 2008 |

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