TY - BOOK ID - 1927685 TI - Women readers and the ideology of gender in Old French verse romance PY - 1993 VL - 43 SN - 0521432677 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Poetry KW - Old French literature KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur KW - Sex role in literature KW - 82:396 KW - 840-1 "-/14" KW - French poetry KW - -Women KW - -Women and literature KW - -Romances KW - -Sex role in literature KW - Women KW - -Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Chivalric romances KW - Chivalry KW - Courtly romances KW - French romances KW - Medieval romances KW - Romances, French KW - Romans courtois KW - French literature KW - Literature, Medieval KW - Literature KW - Literatuur en feminisme KW - Franse literatuur: poëzie--?"-/14" KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - -History KW - Books and reading KW - Romances KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - History and criticism. KW - -Literatuur en feminisme KW - 840-1 "-/14" Franse literatuur: poëzie--?"-/14" KW - 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme KW - -82:396 Literatuur en feminisme KW - Human females KW - To 1500 KW - France KW - Middle Ages, 500-1500 KW - Women - France - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500. KW - Women - France - Books and reading - History. KW - Women and literature - France - History. KW - Ecrivains et lecteurs KW - Roman courtois français KW - Poésie française KW - Rôle selon le sexe KW - Femmes KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Roman courtois KW - Sexualité KW - Dans la littérature KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Avant 1500 KW - Histoire et critique KW - Livres et lecture KW - Moyen-Age UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1927685 AB - This study focuses on the relationship between Old French verse romances and the women who formed a part of their audience, and challenges the commonly-held view that all courtly literature promoted the social welfare of the noblewomen to whom romances were dedicated or addressed. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, Roberta Krueger provides close readings of a selection of texts, both well-known and less well-known, to show an intriguing variety of portrayals of women: misogynistic, idealizing and didactic. She suggests that romances not only taught their audiences idealized models of masculine and feminine behaviour (including a sophisticated underpinning of medieval women's loss of autonomy in the family, education and society during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries), but that many romances also invited their readers to criticise and to resist gender roles. ER -