Gender and the Authority of Friars: The Significance of Holy Women for Thirteenth-Century Franciscans and Dominicans
As some recent historians have argued, the phenomenon of “gender,” that is, the way in which a society or group perceives and articulates difference between the sexes, can provide that society or group with fundamental terms in which to understand itself and explain or justify its actions. Consequen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1991
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Church history
Year: 1991, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 445-460 |
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| Summary: | As some recent historians have argued, the phenomenon of “gender,” that is, the way in which a society or group perceives and articulates difference between the sexes, can provide that society or group with fundamental terms in which to understand itself and explain or justify its actions. Consequently, historical evidence of the way groups or societies have perceived and articulated sexual difference—have constructed gender—may therefore take us beyond matters of sexuality per se to wider revelations about the perceivers' sense of themselves1. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3169027 |