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Table of Contents:
Abstract
Dedication
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Soundings/Sightings
Chapter 1: Writing Women: Problematics of History
and Language
Chapter 2: Norman Knights, Anglo-Saxon Women,
and the "Third Sex:" The Masculinization of England After the
Conquest
Chapter 3: Hedging in Men and Women: The Margins
as Agents of Gender Construction
Chapter 4: Edging Out Difference: Revisiting
the Margins as a Postmodern Project
Afterword: Social Control through Multivalent
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Note to the Reader
New modes of scholarship require new forms of presentation. During the
writing of this book I had a hard time deciding whether to present the
theoretical framework or the case study first in each chapter. Electronic
publishing will allow the reader to decide how they want to read the book.
The contents list is available in every section to allow easy selection,
and links in the text will facilitate pursuit of themes such as gender
construction that are treated in several places.
Illustrations are available in the text, and can be enlarged to examine
details. For reasons of copyright they cannot be downloaded, but some
links are provided so that readers can purchase their own photographs.
Material in notes can be accessed by clicking on the number in the text;
a click on the number in the note itself will return the reader to the
text.. Short references can be expanded in the same way.
Lists of essential reading are provided for each section, and may be
used as independent bibliographic guides, though the authors also have
links to the text where their work is discussed. In each case, it is my
hope that the theories reviewed can be used to assist new case studies.
The art historical monographs listed in essential reading will also provide
further examples for analysis, possibly in conjunction with different
theoretical frameworks.
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