The Once and Future Sex
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What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be?
In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega
turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world
and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and
reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval
thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blend of classical
Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their
concepts of the sexes. For the height of female attractiveness,
they chose the mythical Helen of Troy, whose imagined pear shape,
small breasts, and golden hair served as beauty's epitome.Casting
Eve's shadow over medieval women, they derided them as oversexed
sinners, inherently lustful, insatiable, and weak. And, unless a
nun, a woman was to be the embodiment of perfect motherhood. In
contrast, drawing on accounts of remarkable and subversive medieval
women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen, along with
others hidden in documents and court cases, Janega shows us how
real women of the era lived.While often mothers, they were
industrious farmers, brewers, textile workers, artists, and
artisans and paved the way for new ideas about women's nature,
intellect, and ability. In The Once and Future Sex, Janega unravels
the restricting expectations on medieval women and the ones on
women today. She boldly questions why, if our ideas of women have
changed drastically over time, we cannot reimagine them now to
create a more equitable future.
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W. W. Norton & Company ,
Eleanor Janega
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W. W. Norton & Company,
Eleanor Janega
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Slovart
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