Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers by Cynthia Ho, Barbara Stevenson

Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers

The New Middle Ages

Cynthia Ho, Barbara Stevenson

256 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

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The essays in this collection suggest the similar, and also strikingly dissimilar, strategies of women working within medieval courtly cultures to mitigate traditional patriarchal constraints. Many of the works and authors focus on the courtly asp...

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