Venomous Tongues Stephanie McDyre Johnson Winner of the 2014 Anna

Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies

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Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki’s legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race

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Venomous Tongues Stephanie McDyre Johnson Winner of the 2014 AnnaSandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. Women of all social classes and marital statuses ran the risk of being charged