Description:
Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing...
Brief description: Mary C. Erler is Professor of English at Fordham University.
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Interdisciplinary essays on the exercise and transmission of female power in medieval society.
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