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The Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth
Author(s): Sarah M. Anderson (Editor), Karen Swenson
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 21 Dec. 2001
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 322 pages
- ISBN-10: 0815319665
- ISBN-13: 9780815319665
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Sarah M. Anderson teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University, and Karen Swenson teaches at Virginia Tech University.
