The Rooster's Egg: Maternal Metaphors and Medieval Men
The present study explores representations of the female reproductive body in medieval written sources, with an emphasis on the figurative language that was used to describe pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation, and lactation when these phenomena take place in the female body and, symbolically, in ma...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26509 |