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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9780393867817
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393867811
ISBN-13
9780393867817
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10057249813
Product Key Features
Book Title
Once and Future Sex : Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Women, Sociology / General, Social History, Europe / Medieval
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-058204
Reviews
Accessible, informative, and clear-sighted about the insidious workings of misogyny, this is a persuasive call for deconstructing the past to create a more equitable future., A breezy, pertinent study that demonstrates how learning about social constructs is crucial to changing them., Reading this book is like hanging out with your brilliant, hilarious historian friend, raging together at misogyny's extraordinary adaptability over time and plotting how to change the world once and for all., With a deft hand, Eleanor Janega plots the maze of contradictions, restrictions, prejudice, unrealistic ideals, and outright dangers that medieval woman were forced to navigate. In doing so, she will elicit rage, admiration, horror, and wonder from her readers on behalf of their frequently indomitable female ancestors. Compelling and revelatory., A startling rethinking of why the medieval past still matters. Eleanor Janega tells how women's roles are fundamentally constructed and the ways they have both changed over time and unfortunately stayed the same. With erudition and humor, this book offers the reader a perfect case study of how a fuller accounting of the past opens up new, better possible worlds., Humorous, slightly irreverent...This book offers fresh, insightful takes on the medieval period from a feminine standpoint., In this witty, entertaining, and highly learned book, packed full of colorful characters and the texture of a long-past time, Eleanor Janega pulls the reader through the exotic and alien world of medieval ideas about sex and gender. Janega never loses sight of the bigger picture: how these old ideas underpin our own conceptions of gender, and modern conceits of progress and enlightenment are no less constructed and deeply flawed than those of the past.--Patrick Wyman, author of The Verge and host of The History of Tides podcast With a deft hand, Janega plots the maze of contradictions, restrictions, prejudice, unrealistic ideals, and outright dangers that medieval woman were forced to navigate. In doing so, she will elicit rage, admiration, horror, and wonder from her readers on behalf of their frequently indomitable female ancestors. Compelling and revelatory.--Lindsey Fitzharris, New York Times,/em best-selling author of The Facemaker, The Once and Future Sex is a bracing and witty exploration of how gender is constructed. Eleanor Janega shows it is high time we stop using 'medieval' as a pejorative and we stop patting ourselves on the back for our supposed progress. Combining incisive cultural criticism, meticulous research, and juicy historical tidbits, The Once and Future Sex proves that the path towards a more equitable future can be found by way of the medieval past., In this witty, entertaining, and highly learned book, packed full of colorful characters and the texture of a long-past time, Eleanor Janega never loses sight of the bigger picture: how these old ideas underpin our own conceptions of gender and how modern conceits of progress are no less deeply flawed than those of the past., A timely corrective...[A]ccessible and entertaining...Ms. Janega's witty but merciless dissection of medieval misogyny is a welcome challenge to us to stop recycling the same old prejudices.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
305.30940902
Synopsis
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blend of classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes. For the height of female attractiveness, they chose the mythical Helen of Troy, whose imagined pear shape, small breasts, and golden hair served as beauty's epitome. Casting Eve's shadow over medieval women, they derided them as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful, insatiable, and weak. And, unless a nun, a woman was to be the embodiment of perfect motherhood. In contrast, drawing on accounts of remarkable and subversive medieval women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen, along with others hidden in documents and court cases, Janega shows us how real women of the era lived. While often mothers, they were industrious farmers, brewers, textile workers, artists, and artisans and paved the way for new ideas about women's nature, intellect, and ability. In The Once and Future Sex, Janega unravels the restricting expectations on medieval women and the ones on women today. She boldly questions why, if our ideas of women have changed drastically over time, we cannot reimagine them now to create a more equitable future., A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior., What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega unfurls the era's ideas about women. Some of these attitudes were not new to the time: beauty ideals of the Middle Ages, for instance, rested on the mythical and unparalleled Helen of Troy. Janega explores the paradox of real women being expected to look like goddesses while attention to appearance was denigrated as vanity by medieval Christian philosophers. Such men also cast Eve's shadow over contemporary women, deriding them as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful and weak. This era marked the cultural relegation of women to motherhood, but Janega shows that despite these expectations, medieval women were industrious farmers, brewers, textile workers, artists, and artisans, paving the way for new ideas about women's nature, intellect, and ability., Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior.
LC Classification Number
HQ1143.J36 2023
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