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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lochrie, Karma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

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

Sexual ethics.

Literature, Medieval.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; [Bristol : University Presses Marketing, distributor], c2005.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816697403

081669740X

OCLC:

476095787