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Chance (English, Rice University) sees women in Anglo-Saxon literature as heroic rather than peripheral. Good women are modeled on the Virgin Mary, bad ones on Eve. Less obvious is woman's role as ``peace-weaver'': through marriage and childbearing, she linked tribes; through her ritual role in the mead-hall, she strengthened the comitatus. Grendel's vengeful mother, then, is an ``inversion'' of the Anglo-Saxon ideal of woman. The book is a useful supplement to the more general works on Anglo-Saxon literature focusing on man the warrior; its primary audience is the specialist in the period or the student of women in literature. Margaret Hallissy, English Dept., Long Island Univ., C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, N.Y.
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- Ruling Women: Queenship And Gender in Anglo-saxon Literature by Stacy S. Klein on 4 pages
- Images of Community in Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Hugh Magennis on page 105, page 110, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Ellen Rooney on page 55, and page 68
- Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (The New Middle Ages) by Mary Dockray-Miller on page 2, and Back Matter
- Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (Middle Ages Series) by Clare A. Lees in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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