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Hardcover The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature Book

ISBN: 0812237137

ISBN13: 9780812237139

The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature

In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies, McCracken offers a provocative examination of the ways gendered cultural values were mapped onto...

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