Irony
Allegory
Persona
Some Sites with Extensive Materials relevant to the topic of this
course:
Diotima: Women & Gender
in the Ancient World
Diotima: Anthology of Materials
Perseus Digital Library (somewhat
difficult to navigate but very good)
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook: Main Page
Medieval
Sourcebook: Introduction
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Main Page
Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant, Women's
Life in Greece and Rome (Diotima)
From The
Troublesome Helpmate: A History of Misogyny in Literature by Katherine
M. Rogers
Ancient materials:
Genesis:
Genesis
1-4: The Biblical Story of the Creation of the World and the Fall of Mankind
Hesiod (c. 700 BCE)
Pandora:
Hesiod, Works and Days 53-105. (Diotima)
Semonides (c. 550 BCE):
Women,
by Semonides of Amorgos (Poem 7) (Diotima)
Ancient
History Sourcebook: The Lot of the Hellenic Woman, c. 700-300 BCE (Includes
sections from Hesiod, Semonides, and numerous other writers.)
Horace:
Quintus
Horatius Flaccus, The Works of Horace (Perseus)
Brief
info on Horace
Juvenal:
Juvenal's
Satires I-III
Ancient
History Sourcebook: Juvenal: Satire VI
A Juvenal Study Guide
Article from Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
Material from Late Antiquity and Church Fathers
Early Church Fathers
Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian Ante-Nicene
Fathers, Vol. III;
The Fathers of the Third Century Ante-Nicene
Fathers, Vol. IV ETC. - PLEASE SEE main site above for various materials including
Jerome's "Against Jovinian."
The
Ecole Glossary: The Desert Fathers
The
Paradise of the Desert Fathers
The
Desert Fathers
Vitae Patrum
Medieval materials
Christine
de Pizan
Christine de Pizan (Celebration of Women)
Christine de Pizan, The Making of the Queen's Manuscript
Christine de Pizan (Middle Ages.net)
Roman de la Rose (Rare book exhibition. General description and woodcuts)
The Wife of Bath
The
Wife of Bath's Prologue - Middle English - Hypertext
The
Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in Images
The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage
English Song Collections: Satires against Women
Renaissance materials
Women's Quarrel, 1500-1800
Joan Scott, Early Feminist Theory and the "Querelle des Femmes", 1400-1789
Janet Clare, “Transgressing Boundaries: Women’s Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation"
Jane Anger her Protection for Women to defend them against the SCANDALOUS REPORTES OF a late Surfeiting Lover, and all other like Venerians that complaine so to bee overcloyed with womens kindnesse.
Women:
loved and loathed
Erasmus "A
Maiden and Her Lover"
From "Colloquia: Concerning Men, Manners, and Things,"
Translated into English by N. Bailey, London, 1725. From the Erasmus Text Project.
Restoration and 18th. century materials
Mary Evelyn, "Mundis Muliebris: or, The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd" 1690.
See also Mundus foppensis: or, the fop display'd Being the ladies vindication, in answer to a late pamphlet, entituled, Mundus muliebris: or, the ladies dressing-room unlock'd, &c. In burlesque. Together with a short supplement to the fop-dictionary: compos'd for the use of the town-beaus, 1691.
Jonathan Swift, "The
Lady's Dressing Room"
Another site with Swift's poem:The
Lady's Dressing Room
Lady Mary Wortley Montague,"The
Reasons that Induced Dr S to write a Poem called 'The Lady's Dressing Room'"
Another site with Lady Mary's poem: "The Reasons that Induced . . .Room"
Swift, "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex"
Alexander Pope, "Epistle
to Several Persons: Epistle II, to a Lady on the Characters of Women'
Modern materials
Vagina Monologues
Eve
Ensler's - The Vagina Monologues
The
Vagina Monologues Press Release - THEATRE ON THE SQUARE - San Francisco,
California
Salon
| Books: The Vagina Monologues
The
Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
98six.com
-- Body Image: The Vagina Monologues
Guardian
Unlimited Observer | Review | Talking 'bout our genitalia
Additional materials:
The
Men's Tribune: Editor, Spartacus (This site originates
in an anti-feminist point of view and raises a number of interesting questions.
The editor has asssembled a lot of interesting material.)
Men's Issues on the Internet (Links)
Daniel Defoe, Roxana, end of Chapter 8
Articles
Any of the chapters from Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer, Link to this book can also be found on our schedule pagel
Husband vs. Wife in Juvenal's Sixth Satire
Warren S. Smith, Jr.
The Classical World, Vol. 73, No. 6 (Mar., 1980), pp. 323-332
Juvenal VI. 1-20, and Some Ancient Attitudes to the Golden Age
David Singleton
Greece & Rome, Second Series, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Oct., 1972), pp. 151-165
Joan Scott, Early Feminist Theory and the "Querelle des Femmes", 1400-1789
"The Wife of Bath, Christine de Pizan, and the Medieval Case for Women"
S. H. Rigby
The Chaucer Review, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2000), pp. 133-165
The Wife of Bath Debates Jerome
Warren S. Smith
The Chaucer Review, Vol. 32, No. 2 (1997), pp. 129-145
The Wife of Bath versus the Clerk of Oxford: What Their Rivalry Means
John A. Alford
The Chaucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall, 1986), pp. 108-132
Chaucer's Anti-Misogynist Wife of Bath
Kenneth J. Oberembt
The Chaucer Review, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Spring, 1976), pp. 287-302
Queering Genres, Battering Males: The Wife of Bath's Narrative Violence
Tison Pugh
Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 115-142
Cambridge MS. DD.4.24: A Misogynous Scribal Revision of the "Wife of Bath's Prologue"?
Beverly Kennedy
The Chaucer Review, Vol. 30, No. 4 (1996), pp. 343-358
"The Wife of Bath's Grandmother": Or, How Gilote Showed Her Friend Johane That the Wages of Sin Is Worldly Pleasure, and How Both Then Preached This Gospel throughout England and Ireland
Carter Revard
The Chaucer Review, Vol. 39, No. 2 (2004), pp. 117-136
***SOME VERY EARLY articles on the Wife of Bath: See what you think.
The Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale
William E. Mead
PMLA, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1901), pp. 388-40
"The Wanton Wife of Bath" and Queen Elizabeth
Ernest Kuhl
Studies in Philology, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 1929), pp. 177-183
The Marital Dilemma in the Wife of Bath's Tale
Margaret Schlauch
PMLA, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Jun., 1946), pp. 416-430
Wife of Bath and the Rhetoric of Enchantment; Or, How to Make a Hero See in the Dark
Theodore Silverstein
Modern Philology, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Feb., 1961), pp. 153-173
Dressing Room poems
Mary Evelyn, "Mundis Muliebris: or, The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd,": Women Writers Resource Project
Remembering in Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room"
Melinda Alliker Rabb
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 32, No. 3, Artistic Tensions: Tradition, Society, Memory, and Gender (FALL 1990), pp. 375-396.
FYI: Check out this collection of articles. They might be useful to your thinking about the papers. Masculinities
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