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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808485403321

Autore

Lochrie Karma

Titolo

Heterosyncrasies : female sexuality when normal wasn't / / Karma Lochrie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press

[Bristol, : University Presses Marketing, distributor], c2005

ISBN

9780816697403

081669740X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Disciplina

306.70940902

Soggetti

Women - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500

Sexual ethics - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500

Literature, Medieval

Sex in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Have we ever been normal? -- Untold pleasures : Heloise's theory of female desire and religious practice -- Far from heaven : nuns, prioresses, and Lollard anxieties -- Before the tribade : medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure -- Amazons at the gates.

Sommario/riassunto

Heterosyncrasies looks to the foundation of modern society in the Middle Ages to question the heterosexuality of that history. From the letters of Heloise to Lollard heretical attacks on the Church, to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and the Amazons of medieval myth, Karma Lochrie focuses on female sexuality in the Middle Ages in an effort to discern a diversified understanding of it.