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The pitfalls of linear time: using the medieval female life cycle as an organising strategy

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Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture, Pages: 13 - 28

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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’,...

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Published in: Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture
ISBN: 9781843844037
Published: 2015
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