Abstract This paper explains that Caroline Bynum has been long recognized for her exceptional scholarship and stature as a researcher. The author points out that "Jesus As Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages" is not simply about feminine images of Christ during the 12th century in Europe. The paper relates that this text is composed of five distinct essays and studies, which taken together are capable of providing readers with a broader understanding of the importance of the spiritual world and the social role it played in this historical context.
From the Paper "Caroline Bynum has been long recognized in the historical halls of academia for her exceptional scholarship and stature as a researcher. This has proved once again to be the case with "Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages". The subtitle should lead the reader towards the author's subject matter. This text is not simply about feminine images of Christ during the 12th century in Europe. Instead, this text is composed of five distinct essays and studies, which taken together are capable of providing readers with a broader understanding of the importance of the spiritual world and the social role that it played in that historical context. Each essay could be taken alone as an individual study on the varied subject matter."
Abstract This paper examines August Wilson play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" as symbolic of loss and redemption after the abolition of slavery. The author points out that Wilson uses Bynum's "binding song" as a main point of reference for the characterization of Bynum and Loomis.
From the Paper " In Joe Turner's "Come and Gone" the audience is faced with characters who are most certainly out of place in their surroundings. By setting his work during that period of American History known as The Great Migration, he opens our ..."
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Abstract This essay examines Bynum's analysis of the religious significance of food to medieval women as an example of gender history, paying particular attention to the aspects of medieval culture that she analysed in terms of it being a complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, customs and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. The paper discusses how Bynum comes from a functionalist perspective, in that she looks at the mechanisms, which ensured the stability of the social system as a whole, as well as a holistic interpretive approach, in that she separates aspects of the past into important and otherwise untouched areas of study.
From the Paper "Bynum's work must be seen in relation to the poststructuralist approach that she employs throughout her work and the turn in feminist history towards the poststructuralist framework of the late 1980s and early 1990s, with its focus on the analysis of discourses, of representations and of the construction of social categories. Bynum's approach, like social history's looks at macro-structural forms of analysis such as social and economic structures as determinants of individual behaviour, (paying particular attention to the role of the Church). Her approach is grounded in psychoanalytic understandings of gender identity formation, and in the rejection of constructivist opinion that denied the importance of the body as a point of study, with Bynum seeking to highlight the body's importance for women and to explore its deeper meanings."
An examination of the book "Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South," by Victoria E. Bynum, which discusses the life of women in the American South in the 19th century.
Abstract This paper introduces and discusses the book, "Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South," by Victoria E. Bynum. Specifically, it looks at why the writer found the book to be interesting and valuable for research on how women lived in the Old South. The writer claims that the book provides insight into the very personal and intimate lives of women that many male historians have not previously documented.
From the Paper ""Unruly Women" is more than just a book about how women lived in the South in the 19th century. It is a graphic history of how husbands, masters, and owners treated their women. It is a tale of women who did not fit in their society, and how society regarded them. It is the story of black women, and white women, and how they considered each other, and interacted with the men in their lives. It is often fascinating, and often disturbing. Bynum has taken a difficult subject, and made the reader want to learn more. Bynum herself says in the Introduction, "Why should historians interested in the dynamics of power and politics in the antebellum South investigate this politically powerless minority of women? This book addresses these questions by examining three broad categories of women who behaved in atypical fashion" (Bynum 1)."
Examines the depiction of madness through disassociation in two works of literature: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by August Wilson.
Abstract Cognition is, simply stated, the way in which the mind interprets information received from the senses. It is the pathway to understanding. Disassociation can run the gamut from day-dreaming to an extreme mental disorder that encompasses a separation of mental processes, such as thoughts, emotions, cognition, memory and identity. This paper shows how, in the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the play, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by August Wilson, madness based on disassociation is a central theme.
From the Paper "In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator, under treatment for 'hysteria', is taken "three miles from the village" (Gilman 11) to an upstairs nursery of a "colonial mansion" (Gilman 9), its windows barred and its walls covered in a faded yellow wallpaper whose "sprawling flamboyant patterns" commit "every artistic sin" (Gilman 13). In time, the woman succumbs to the disassociation focused on the wallpaper and is stripped of her sanity and humanity in the same manner that the wall is stripped of the wallpaper by the woman (Bak 39). The story ends with her trying to become a part of the wallpaper and succeeding only in bringing her own life to an end."
