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Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages - Valerie Henitiuk (Essay Date Fall 2002)
VALERIE HENITIUK (ESSAY DATE FALL 2002)
SOURCE: Henitiuk, Valerie. "Virgin Territory: Murasaki Shikibu's Ôigimi Resists the Male." Agora: An Online Graduate Journal 1, no. 3 (fall 2002) http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/agora/articles.cfm?Articl... (accessed 21 October 2003).
In the following excerpt, Henitiuk offers a feminist reading of gendered space and female circumscription in Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji.
We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry, thirsty roots.
—Christina Rossetti
The controversial Japanese critic, author, and translator Setouchi Jakuchō has characterized the early 11th-century Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) as a sex education manual designed at...
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