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- catalog abstract ""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 blood in the Middle Ages." "As McCracken demonstrates, blood is gendered when that of men is prized in stories about battle and that of women is excluded from the public arena in which social and political hierarchies are contested and defined through chivalric contest. In her examination of the conceptualization of familial relationships, she uncovers the privileges that are grounded in gendered definitions of blood relationships. She shows that in narratives about a sacrifice a father's relationship to his son is described as shared blood, whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted, often menstrual blood. Turning to fictional representations of bloody martyrdoms and of eucharistic ritual, McCracken juxtaposes the blood of the wounded guardian of the grail with that of Christ and suggests that the blood from the grail king's wound is characterized in opposition to that of women and Jewish men."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12759333.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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 blood in the Middle Ages." "As McCracken demonstrates, blood is gendered when that of men is prized in stories about battle and that of women is excluded from the public arena in which social and political hierarchies are contested and defined through chivalric contest. In her examination of the conceptualization of familial relationships, she uncovers the privileges that are grounded in gendered definitions of blood relationships. She shows that in narratives about a sacrifice a father's relationship to his son is described as shared blood, whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted, often menstrual blood. Turning to fictional representations of bloody martyrdoms and of eucharistic ritual, McCracken juxtaposes the blood of the wounded guardian of the grail with that of Christ and suggests that the blood from the grail king's wound is characterized in opposition to that of women and Jewish men."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-171) and index.".
- catalog description "Only women bleed -- The amenorrhea of war -- The gender of sacrifice -- Menstruation and monstrous birth -- The scene of parturition -- The grail and its hosts -- Conclusion : bleeding for love.".
- catalog extent "xii, 178 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0812237137 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Middle Ages series.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Middle Ages series".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog subject "809/.9335 21".
- catalog subject "Blood in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Medieval History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN682.B56 M38 2003".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Only women bleed -- The amenorrhea of war -- The gender of sacrifice -- Menstruation and monstrous birth -- The scene of parturition -- The grail and its hosts -- Conclusion : bleeding for love.".
- catalog title "The curse of Eve, the wound of the hero : blood, gender, and medieval literature / Peggy McCracken.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".