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03001aim a2200421Ka 4500 001 9BAA4B2CA45911EDA94333522DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230204010026 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 221027s2023 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1696610559 020 $a 9781696610551 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a HIS058000 $a HIS054000 $a HIS058000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Janega, Eleanor. 245 14 $a The once and future sex $h [electronic resource] : $b Going medieval on women's roles in society. $c Eleanor Janega. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a Prince Frederick : $b HighBridge Audio, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file) : $b digital 306 $a 00:00:00 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Samara Naeymi. 520 $a A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior. What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blend of classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes. For the height of female attractiveness, they chose the mythical Helen of Troy, whose imagined pear shape, small breasts, and golden hair served as beauty's epitome. Casting Eve's shadow over medieval women, they derided them as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful, insatiable, and weak. And, unless a nun, a woman was to be the embodiment of perfect motherhood. In The Once and Future Sex, Janega unravels the restricting expectations on medieval women and the ones on women today. She boldly questions why, if our ideas of women have changed drastically over time, we cannot reimagine them now to create a more equitable future. 538 $a Requires OverDrive app (file size: 38 KB). 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a History. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Women's Studies. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Naeymi, Samara. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9314231 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1294-1/%7B00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000186%7DImg100.jpg $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1294-1/%7B00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000186%7DImg200.jpg $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/1b822da6-5fb7-4501-b96e-5d57e44cbccb $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230204010129.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BAA4B2CA45911EDA94333522DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search