The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

Eleanor Janega

272 pages first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction gender history sociology informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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