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The pitfalls of linear time: using the medieval female life cycle as an organising strategy
Patricia Skinner 
Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture, Pages: 13 - 28
Swansea University Author:
Patricia Skinner
Abstract
This chapter examines the applicability of life-cycle as a structuring tool in the study of women’s lives in the past. Taking as its starting point what commentators such as Carolyn Dinshaw have identified as masculinist conceptions of linear time, as expressed in such schemata as ‘the ages of man’,...
| Published in: | Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture |
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| ISBN: | 9781843844037 |
| Published: |
2015
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| Online Access: |
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14715 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26953 |
| Abstract: |
This chapter examines the applicability of life-cycle as a structuring tool in the study of women’s lives in the past. Taking as its starting point what commentators such as Carolyn Dinshaw have identified as masculinist conceptions of linear time, as expressed in such schemata as ‘the ages of man’, it will argue that the apparent order and linearity of a lifetime, and its expectation of smooth progress from one life stage to the next, is an illusory ideal, interrupted and disrupted by actual life events. |
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| Keywords: |
Gender, time, life cycle |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
13 |
| End Page: |
28 |