Secrets, gossip and gender in William Dunbar's The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo.(Critical essay)

From: Philological Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Matlock, Wendy A. | Copyright information

Whether shared politically as diplomacy, religiously as confession, intellectually as knowledge, or socially as gossip, secrets structured power relations in medieval society, just as they do today. (1) People who hold them can use them to gain an advantage over others and once shared secrets can define membership in a group. Shared secrets can also become gossip, which, as Patricia Meyer Spacks postulates, "incorporates the possibility that people utterly lacking in public power m...

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