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Article: Finn E. Sinclair, Milk and Blood: Gender and Genealogy in the 'Chanson de Geste'.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Finn E. Sinclair, Milk and Blood: Gender and Genealogy in the 'Chanson de Geste' (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003), 292 pp. ISBN 3-90676-9. 34.00 [pounds sterling].
For Finn E. Sinclair 'theory' provides a new and fruitful point of contact with a Middle Ages 'which need no longer be seen as the radical Other of modernity' (p. 13). She begins with an account of medieval theory of female identity, (the Spiritual Feminine, the Virgin Mary, the Physical Feminine, this latter with a discussion of medieval medical theory) seen in the context of twentieth-century psychoanalytical and gender theory. However, because of Kristeva's labile use of technical terms ('semiotique', ...