The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature

by Robert Archer

This book argues that the problem of gender identity is vital to the large corpus of medieval Hispanic texts that discuss the nature of women.

What is a woman? This book questions the persistent assumption that the large corpus of medieval Hispanic texts that discuss the nature of women can be defined in terms of the clich?d discourses of misogynism and defence of women, arguing instead that the problem of gender identity is vital to them all.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855661136
• ISBN13: 9781855661134
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 6.2"