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

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

Peggy McCracken

200 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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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, an...

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