Cold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth
Sarah M. Anderson
320 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0815319665
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Language: English
Publish: 1040457600000
Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.