Fragmentation and redemption
essays on gender and the human body in Medieval religion
by Caroline Walker Bynum
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Fragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very image of paradise. It is also a study of gender, that is, a study of how sex roles and possibilities are conceptualized by both men and women, even though asymmetric power relationships and men’s greater access to knowledge have informed the cultural construction of categories such as “male” and “female,” “heretic” and “saint.” Finally, these essays are about the creativity of women’s voices and women’s bodies.
Bynum discusses how some women manipulated the dominant tradition to free themselves from the burden of fertility, yet made female fertility a powerful symbol; how some used Christian dichotomies of male / female and powerful / weak to facilitate their own imitatio Christi, yet undercut these dichotomies by subsuming them into humanitas. Medieval women spoke little of inequality and little of gender, yet there is a profound connection between their symbols and communities and the twentieth-century determination to speak of gender and “study women.”
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Fragmentierung und Erlösung: Geschlecht und Körper im Glauben des Mittelalters
1996-03-01, Suhrkamp Verlag
Paperback
in German
3518117319 9783518117316
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
September 9, 1992, Zone Books
Paperback
in English
0942299620 9780942299625
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Fragmentation and redemption: essays on gender and the human body in Medieval religion
1991, Zone Books, Distributed by the MIT Press
in English
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
November 19, 1990, Zone Books
Hardcover
in English
0942299639 9780942299632
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