Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages - Research Article from Feminism in Literature

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 177 pages of information about Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages.

Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages - Research Article from Feminism in Literature

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Contemporary feminist theory has allowed social and literary critics to observe and reconstruct the past through the lens of the woman, and more specifically, through that of the woman writer. Looking to the premodern eras of antiquity and the Middle Ages, feminist scholars have studied women's roles as artists, leaders, and agents of history. Likewise, they have examined the status of ordinary individuals as the subjects of social and historical change across the millennia. Importantly, most classicists and medievalists who employ the tools of feminist theory in their work have been careful to note that feminism is a decidedly contemporary development, cautioning those who would describe women of the distant past as feminists to be aware of the consequent anachronism. Nevertheless, in their explorations of early literature and past civilizations, these scholars have recognized an emerging consciousness regarding women's issues. While women writers of ancient Greece, Alexandrian Egypt...

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