1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459703003321

Autore

Bardsley Sandy

Titolo

Venomous tongues : speech and gender in late medieval England  / / Sandy Bardsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

0-8122-0429-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages series

Disciplina

306.44/09420902

Soggetti

English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Sex differences

Language and culture - England - History - To 1500

Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500

Sex differences (Psychology) - Great Britain - History - Medieval period, 1066-1485

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Speech, Gender, and Power in Late Medieval England -- Chapter 1. ''Sins of the Tongue'' and Social Change -- Chapter 2. The Sins of Women's Tongues in Literature and Art -- Chapter 3. Women's Voices and the Law -- Chapter 4. Men's Voices -- Chapter 5. Communities and Scolding -- Chapter 6. Who Was a Scold? -- Conclusion: Consequences of the Feminization of Deviant Speech -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. Women of all social classes and marital statuses ran the risk of being charged as scolds, and local jurisdictions interpreted the label "scold" in a way that best fit their particular circumstances. Indeed, Bardsley demonstrates, this flexibility of definition helped to ensure the longevity of the term: women were



punished as scolds as late as the early nineteenth century. The tongue, according to late medieval moralists, was a dangerous weapon that tempted people to sin. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, clerics railed against blasphemers, liars, and slanderers, while village and town elites prosecuted those who abused officials or committed the newly devised offense of scolding. In courts, women in particular were prosecuted and punished for insulting others or talking too much in a public setting. In literature, both men and women were warned about women's propensity to gossip and quarrel, while characters such as Noah's Wife and the Wife of Bath demonstrate the development of a stereotypically garrulous woman. Visual representations, such as depictions of women gossiping in church, also reinforced the message that women's speech was likely to be disruptive and deviant.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691099303321

Autore

Jones Gary Leland <1944->

Titolo

Department of Energy [[electronic resource] ] : uncertainties and management problems have hindered cleanup at two nuclear waste sites : statement of Ms. Gary L. Jones, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Task Force on Natural Resources and the Environment, Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. General Accounting Office, , [2000]

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO/T-RCED-00-248

Soggetti

Radioactive waste sites - Cleanup - Kentucky - Paducah Region

Radioactive waste sites - Cleanup - Savannah River (Ga. and S.C.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Released ... July 12, 2000."

Paper version available from the General Accounting Office.

Title from title screen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910670800603321

Titolo

2022 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (SE4RAI) / / Qinghua Lu, [and three others], editors.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, NJ : , : IEEE, , 2022

ISBN

1-4503-9319-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Software engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia