Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.

Autorentext
M.C. BODDEN is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, USA.

Inhalt
Idle Talk and the Criminalization of Women's Speech The Imagined Woman Women, Conversation, Crime, and the Courts Staged Conversations Code-Switching: Male Crossing into Female Speech Domain Margery Kempe: 'I grab the microphone and move my body'