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Embodying loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and postfeminist (con)texts.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Embodying loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and postfeminist (con)texts./
Author:	Inskeep, Kathryn.
Description:	274 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-12A(E).
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3574062
ISBN:	9781303464447

Embodying loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and postfeminist (con)texts.
Inskeep, Kathryn.

Embodying loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and postfeminist (con)texts. - 274 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University, 2013.

A social designation cast upon women who do not conform to normative appearances and cultural practices, loathliness denies these women access to patriarchal institutions of power. In medieval and contemporary iterations of the Loathly Lady narrative, the transformative quest of the Loathly Lady explores the role of stigma in determining the social value of a lone woman of loathly proportions or perceptions.

ISBN: 9781303464447Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Embodying loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and postfeminist (con)texts.
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520 $a A social designation cast upon women who do not conform to normative appearances and cultural practices, loathliness denies these women access to patriarchal institutions of power. In medieval and contemporary iterations of the Loathly Lady narrative, the transformative quest of the Loathly Lady explores the role of stigma in determining the social value of a lone woman of loathly proportions or perceptions.
520 $a The first section, entitled "Marriage and Other Fates Worse than Death," focuses on the rhetoric of loathliness constructed in the medieval texts by relating Kristeva's theory of abjection to medieval theories of the body. Chapter One examines the significance of female loathliness in patriarchal society and the process of reintegration in "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle." This joint analysis of the transgressive and transformative journey of the Loathly Lady questions whether the social acceptance she gains through marriage and physical transformation outweighs the loss of her independence and mobility. The following two chapters are dedicated entirely to Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Of especial concern in Chapter Two is the contrast between the fully present and embodied Wife of Bath and her marginalized and disembodied loathly alter ego in the tale she spins for her fellow pilgrims. Chapter Three considers the implications of disembodying a Loathly Lady in a tale that rewards male sexual violence with marriage.
520 $a The final section, "Fear and Self-loathing in Postfeminist Fiction," address the emergence of the Loathly Lady in chick lit. Chapter Four examines Bridget's strategy for self-transformation, her acts of self-loathing, and eventual self-acceptance in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary. The final chapter compares how self-loathing based in fat phobia factors into the transformation of Jemima Jones in Jane Green's Jemima J and Cannie Shapiro in Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed. Here, I contend that Jemima's attitudes remain largely unchanged despite the physical, financial, and social changes she experiences whereas Cannie experiences a true transformation when she rejects the stigma attached to fatness, erasing any loathly connotations with her fat body.
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