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Old English Literature and Feminist Theory: A State of the Field
Author(s) -
DockrayMiller Mary
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00581.x
Subject(s) - historiography , variety (cybernetics) , agency (philosophy) , field (mathematics) , cultural studies , psychology , gender studies , sociology , social science , history , anthropology , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , pure mathematics
Feminist and gender scholars working in Anglo‐Saxon studies in the past ten years have been asking new and important questions of a variety of Old English and Anglo‐Latin texts. Most crucially, this interdisciplinary new work redefines the historiographical paradigms of Anglo‐Saxon cultural production and reception so that women must now be regularly included in discussions of Anglo‐Saxon cultural agency. This paradigm shift can and should inform broader cultural understandings of the history of gender relations, despite current communication problems among the varied subfields of medieval studies and gender studies. Furthermore, the pedagogy of both medievalists and faculty specializing in later periods must be informed by this shift as well.