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Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Her book underlines the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.

Genealogy in literature. --- Literature and history. --- Literature, Medieval --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism.

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"Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts, but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality"--

Autobiographical fiction, French --- French fiction --- Prostitutes in literature --- Libertines in literature --- Women in literature --- History and criticism

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"Romanos was a sixth-century Byzantine poet-composer and performer of ritual songs, featuring both didactic and dramatic elements, for the emerging Christian rituals and festivals. Future generations were to call these songs kontakia, a genre that came about at the convergence between the Greek-speaking world and Syriac poetry. The focus of this volume is on Romanos's kontakia that include female characters as protagonists, antagonists, or important supporting characters. From villains to heroines, leaders to followers, saints to sinners, from the exceptionally towering Mother of God to the licentiously lustful Potiphar's wife-these characters may grant us limited insights into the mundane realities of women's lives in Constantinople. The songs represent a male gaze, and literary women rarely behave like physical women anyway. Nevertheless, many of the characters are portrayed with a remarkable psychological depth, combining outstanding boldness with inner struggles of doubt and desires and the sense of being pulled in various directions. With determined faith or faithless determination, bursting with love or wanting in ardor, these women embody the complexities of Christian life. The first four songs in this collection relate stories known from the book of Genesis. The female characters are not protagonists, but Romanos gives them important roles in the ancient narratives of temptation and envy, faithfulness and sacrifice. Two kontakia feature prophetic male protagonists but have important female characters. The next five hymns relate stories originating from the Christian gospels. They have female protagonists, and the narratives convey various corporeal encounters with Christ. The final section contains songs about the Virgin Mary, or Theotokos (God-bearer, Mother of God) as she is often called in Byzantine Christianity. Scholars and other modern readers ask questions about gender dynamics in history, and Romanos's kontakia collected in this volume provide a valuable source for such enquiries. His songs offer intriguing perspectives on gendered ideas and ideals in early Christian Byzantium"--

Christian poetry, Byzantine --- Hymns, Greek --- Women in the Bible --- Women in literature --- Themes, motives --- Themes, motives --- Mary, --- In literature.

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"Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Her book underlines the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness"--

Literature, Medieval --- Women in literature. --- Genealogy in literature. --- Literature and history. --- Littérature médiévale --- Femmes dans la littérature. --- Généalogie dans la littérature. --- Littérature et histoire. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique.

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"The invisibilization of nineteenth-century women in Ecuador can be understood as the result of what I call in this book the patriarchal imagination: a dominant order of exclusions and forms of discipline, control, censorship, erasure, moralization and male silencing that naturalized and normalized the supposed female inferiority, making it part of the common sense of the time. In this book I study how, towards the last quarter of the 19th century, a heterogeneous group of national and foreign women writers, many of them Catholic freethinkers, began to progressively participate in the Ecuadorian press, denaturalizing their invisibility in the order of culture, literate and openly questioned, in certain cases, the same existing gender inequalities and exclusions. The emergence and public participation of these educated and intellectual women can be considered a milestone in the cultural history of the country, not only because this was the first generation of writers to intervene in the national press, but because their unusual presence had significant consequences in the defense of their educational, social and political rights"--

Ecuadorian literature --- Women and journalism --- Women authors, Ecuadorian --- Women in literature. --- Ecuadorian newspapers --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social conditions