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Feminism --- Feminist criticism --- History --- Neoliberalism --- Capitalism --- Marxism --- Patriarchy --- Social class --- Book --- Political philosophy

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In this book, a contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, the author focuses on the fiction of four major American writers - William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison - to examine the father's function as a "border figure." Although the father has most commonly been interpreted as the figure who introduces opposition and exclusion to the child, the author finds in these literary depictions fathers who instead support the construction of a social identity by mediating between cultural oppositions.

Patriarchy in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- American literature --- Fatherhood in literature. --- Identity in literature --- History and criticism.

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Late medieval English society placed great weight on the practices of primogeniture, patrilineal descent, and patriarchal government, and the significance of the father had cultural resonance beyond the rule of law. Yet despite a burgeoning interest in both the family and gender, "the father" has to date received little attention from medievalists. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the "fictions" of fatherhood, the ideological constructs that underpinned late medieval conceptions of fathers and patriarchy. Its focus on gentry and mercantile readers and writers also offers new insights into the literary culture of late medieval England by considering how texts were produced and received within gentry and bourgeois communities, and demonstrates the ability of texts to not only reflect but also shape hegemonic norms and cultural anxieties. Through close examination of late medieval letters and romances, It shows how the father was the dominant figure not only of medieval domestic life, but also of the medieval imagination. Dr Rachel Moss is Lecturer in Medieval History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

English literature --- Fatherhood in literature. --- Fatherhood --- History and criticism. --- History --- Parenthood --- Gentry. --- Ideological Constructs. --- Late-Medieval Father. --- Mercantile Readers. --- Middle English Texts. --- Patriarchy. --- Patrilineal Descent. --- Primogeniture.

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Religious studies --- Christian religion --- Jewish religion --- Islam --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Religious fundamentalism --- Islam --- Judaism --- Patriarchy --- Religion --- Religious practices --- Book --- Christianity --- Experiences

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Social problems --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Law --- Feminism --- Patriarchy --- Sex work --- Sexism --- Independence --- Legislation --- Book --- Abolitionism --- Consumption --- France --- Sweden --- Netherlands