The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature

by Peggy McCracken

In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies, McCracken offers a provocative examination of the ways gendered cultural values were mapped onto...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237137
• ISBN13: 9780812237139
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"