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Textiles, gender and materiality : a response

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02/11/2020
Author
Bildhauer, Bettina M
Keywords
D111 Medieval History
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
HT Communities. Classes. Races
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Abstract
This response outlines the predominant current conceptions of gendered materiality in contemporary theory (such as Karen Barad’s development of Judith Butler’s thought) and in medieval studies (such as work by Caroline Walker Bynum). It identifies and expands upon four themes from the two articles in the section that are pertinent to the descriptions of textiles and other material objects in a wider range of medieval texts and current medievalist scholarship: 1) the idea that textiles and other material things can have biographies; 2) the idea that textiles are today (but not necessarily in medieval writing) perceived as connective networks; 3) the ways in which textiles can be compared to texts and used as metaphors for texts; and 4) the importance of (sometimes racialised) shine in the description of textiles. The response demonstrates connections between the English and French texts discussed by authors in the section, and a range of German literature, including Orendel or the Grey Robe, Konrad of Würzburg’s Trojan War, Wirnt of Grafenberg’s Wigalois and Hartmann of Aue’s Erec.
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Bildhauer , B M 2020 , ' Textiles, gender and materiality : a response ' , Medieval Feminist Forum , vol. 56 , no. 1 , pp. 70-83 . < https://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol56/iss1/5 >
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Medieval Feminist Forum
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
1536-8742
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 the Author. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol56/iss1/5.
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Special Issue Gender and Materialism.
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https://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol56/iss1/5
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20936

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