Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages Book

Name: Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages, During the high Middle Ages
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Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages, During the high Middle Ages in Europe, the act of looking was surrounded by superstition. It was believed to have magic power, it was able to arouse anxiety, and it was the subject of lengthy texts by both men and women. In Visualizing Women in the Middl, Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages

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Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages
Written by author Madeline H. Caviness
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 6/28/2001
"During the high Middle Ages in Europe, the act of looking was surrounded by superstition. It was believed to have magic power, it was able to arouse anxiety, and it was the subject of lengthy texts by both men and women. In Visualizing Women in the Middl

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Prelude. The Problem with Mary: Disembodying Motherhood 1

Introduction. The "Male Gaze" and Scopic Economies 17

1 Good Girls Don't Look: Lot's Wife and Daughters 45

The Narrative: Lot's Story 49

Images of Lot's Wife: The Transgressive Gaze 51

Lot's Daughters, or Why Was Incest Better than Sodomy? 69

2 Sado-Erotic Spectacles, Breast Envy, and the Bodies of Martyrs 83

Sado-Erotic Mut(il)ation 84

Discourses of Pain and Pleasure, Then and Now 85

Tortured Female Martyrs and the Gaze in the Middle Ages 89

The Medieval Woman's Body and Its Spectator 91

Representational Codes in Some Images of Torture 99

Castration Anxiety or Breast Envy? 119

3 The Broken Mirror: Parts, Relics, Freaks 125

The De-Eroticized Body: Aesthetic Codes, Fragmentation, and the Problem of Agency 127

Bodies-in-Bits, Then and Now 134

(Re)Assembled Bodies, Grotesque and Otherwise 163

Notes 175

Essential Reading 209

Index 223

Acknowledgments 229

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Width: 7.300 cm (2.87 inches)

Heigh : 10.340 cm (4.07 inches)

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	Note to the Reader
	Prelude. The Problem with Mary: Disembodying Motherhood	1
	Introduction. The "Male Gaze" and Scopic Economies	17
1	Good Girls Don't Look: Lot's Wife and Daughters	45
	The Narrative: Lot's Story	49
	Images of Lot's Wife: The Transgressive Gaze	51
	Lot's Daughters, or Why Was Incest Better than Sodomy?	69
2	Sado-Erotic Spectacles, Breast Envy, and the Bodies of Martyrs	83
	Sado-Erotic Mut(il)ation	84
	Discourses of Pain and Pleasure, Then and Now	85
	Tortured Female Martyrs and the Gaze in the Middle Ages	89
	The Medieval Woman's Body and Its Spectator	91
	Representational Codes in Some Images of Torture	99
	Castration Anxiety or Breast Envy?	119
3	The Broken Mirror: Parts, Relics, Freaks	125
	The De-Eroticized Body: Aesthetic Codes, Fragmentation, and the Problem of Agency	127
	Bodies-in-Bits, Then and Now	134
	(Re)Assembled Bodies, Grotesque and Otherwise	163
	Notes	175
	Essential Reading	209
	Index	223
	Acknowledgments	229