The lady & the Virgin

Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues that the complex interactions between men and women as expressed in both image and experience reflect a common pattern of ambivalence and contradiction. Thus, women are seen as both helpful and harmful, powerful and submissive, and the actuality of women's experience encompasses women in control and controlled, autonomous and dependent.

First sentence: Works of imaginative literature written in the vernacular provide vivid portrayals of the interactions between men and women in the secular sphere.

Year

1985

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Editions

3

Pages

206

ISBN

9780226300887

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