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A01=Helen Solterer
Author_Helen Solterer
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defamation
discipleship
early modern querelle des femmes
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ethics
female respondent
french literature
french medieval culture
gender
gender politics
gender studies
injurious language
legal response
legality
libel
linguistics
literary theory
mastery
medieval culture
medieval french literature
old french literature
political response
politics
power of words
proliferating responses
representations of women
sex and gender
sexual harassment
sycophantic response
women
words
Product details
- ISBN 9780520088351
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 1995
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language. Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a broad range of Old French literature to the early modern Querelle des femmes, she shows how the figure of the female respondent became an instrument for disputing the dominant models of representing women. The female respondent exploited the criterion of injurious language that so preoccupied medieval masters, and she charged master poets ethically and legally with libel. Solterer's work thus illuminates an early, decisive chapter in the history of defamation.
Helen Solterer is Associate Professor of French at Duke University.
