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Madeline H. Caviness, Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy.(Book Review)
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Madeline H. Caviness, Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy.(Book Review)
Publication: Medium Aevum Publication Date: 22-SEP-02 Author: Collette, Carolyn P.
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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). ix + 231 pp.; 80 plates. ISBN 0-8122-3599-1. $55.00.
This is an ambitious book that attempts three goals: to read medieval iconography of women within a theoretical framework of feminist thought, to loosen the grip of Freudian and Lacanian theory on discussion of both gender and the gaze, and, by juxtaposing medieval and contemporary images `so that they enter a dialogic relationship' (p. 15), to see medieval art in a new and different way. The format of the book reflects its...
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