Cold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth
By (author): "Karen Swenson, Sarah M. Anderson"
Publish Date:
December 21st 2001
ISBN0815319665
ISBN139780815319665
AsinCold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth
Original titleCold Counsel : The Women of Old Norse Literature and Myth (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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.