Venomous Tongues Stephanie McDyre Johnson interrogates the complexities of young

interrogates the complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is masculinist

Concerns over health affected the founding fathers and their families as it did slaves

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Venomous Tongues Stephanie McDyre Johnson interrogates the complexities of youngSandy 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