Volume 22 (1996) Fall 1996: Gender and Medievalism
Medieval Feminist Newsletter
Front Matter
Notes and Announcements
A New Home for MFN p. 3
A Brief History of MFN and SMFS p. 3-6
Bonnie Krueger and Beth Robertson
Message from the President p. 6
Pamela Sheingorn
Message from the Editor p. 6-8
Ann Marie Rasmussen
Conference Announcements p. 8-14
Articles
Breaking Down the Barriers: Writing Novels about Medieval Women for Modern Readers p. 15-17
Sharan Best
Wishing for History p. 17-19
Katharine Kerr
Medieval Art as Nostalgia for the Future p. 19-21
Madeline H. Caviness
Joan of Arc: Maneuverable Medievalism, Flexible Feminism p. 21-25
Nadia Margolis
The Influence of J. R. R. Tolkien's Masculinist Medievalism. p. 26-27
Michael D. C. Drout
Feminism Within and Without the Academy p. 27-31
Karma Lochrie, Clare A. Lees, and Gillian R. Overing
Book Reviews
Anne Clark Bartlett, Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature. Cornell University Press, 1995 p. 32-35
J. Wogan-Browne
Giles Constable, Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought. Cambridge University Press, 1995 p. 35-39
Kathleen Ashley
Marilynn Desmond, Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid. Medieval Cultures 8. University of Minnesota Press, 1994 p. 39-43
Wendy Chapman Peek
Jerold C. Frakes, Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994 p. 43-45
Kathleen Rose
M. Victoria Guerin, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy. Stanford University Press, 1995 p. 45-47
Peggy McCracken
Gertrud Jaron Lewis, By Women, For Women, About Women: The Sister-Books of Fourteenth Century Germany. Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1996 p. 47-49
Ulrike Wiethaus
Gayle Margherita, The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994 p. 49-52
Anne Clark Bartlett
June Hall McCash, ed., The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. University of Georgia Press, 1996 p. 52-54
Cynthia J. Brown
Susan L. Smith, The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995 p. 55-58
Diane Wolfthal
Ulrike Wiethaus, Ecstatic Transformation: Transpersonal Psychology in the Work of Mechthild of Magdeburg. Syracuse University Press, 1996 p. 58-61
Amy M. Hollywood
Back Matter
General Editor: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Dept. of German, Duke University
Editors: Margaret Schleissner, Foreign Languages, Rider University Ruth Mazo Karras, History, Temple University Nancy A. Jones