Jane Tolmie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Tolmie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Tolmie |
| SIGNATURE | TOLMIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Comics Classroom After Mahsa Amini
Since the 2022 death of Mahsa Jina Amini in custody of the Guidance Patrol or morality police in Tehran, Iran, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi can also function in the classroom as a comics touching point for human rights discourses around the world and in particular—though not exclusively—those that impact women. Kimberlé Crenshaw, who brought intersectionality to the forefront of cultural and political discourses in 1989, has used the phrase “say…
Sarah Leavitt's Tangles: Teaching Queer Caregiving Memoir on Disability, and Pedagogy as Resistance
This article examines Sarah Leavitt's graphic novel Tangles: A story about Alzheimer's, my mother and me (2010, 2011 UK), in relation to queer identity, feminist wilfulness (Ahmed, 2014), and critical disability studies. Tangles takes up themes of lesbianism, disability, and activism, and it does so through storytelling. Studies around life writing and disability, including the dementia disease Alzheimer's, point the reader strongly toward recogn…
Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature
Silence in the Sewing Chamber: Le Roman de Silence
Following on from Howard Bloch's investigation of a ‘refusal of univocal meaning’ in the thirteenth-century Roman de Silence , this article examines the poem as inviting critics to investigate the collapse of binary systems such as male/female, in/out, language/silence, learned/natural, reward/punishment, innocent/guilty. Moving away from Bloch's focus on poetic language, this article examines the poem's systematic conflation of a woman's life wi…
Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends . Jody Enders
Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England . Theresa Coletti
Medievalism and the Fantasy Heroine
This essay aligns the narrative trajectories of a selected group of contemporary fantasy novels with various medieval sources, with an emphasis on the enduring cultural fantasy of the strong woman who rises above a general condition of female disenfranchisement. The article examines female exceptionalism as a source of narrative pleasure and considers the impact and significance of the insertion of feminist critiques into familiar story-lines. Th…
Goading, ritual discord and the deflection of blame
This article brings some of the discourses of contemporary frame analysis to bear on female incitement — often called goading or whetting (from hvetja ‘to whet’) — in feud structures within several well-known medieval Icelandic family sagas. Broadly speaking, female goading in saga literature is a form of dialogic exchange in which women urge men to perform particular tasks, often seemingly against their will. These tasks mainly revolve around bl…
Medievalism and the Fantasy Heroine
This essay aligns the narrative trajectories of a selected group of contemporary fantasy novels with various medieval sources, with an emphasis on the enduring cultural fantasy of the strong woman who rises above a general condition of female disenfranchisement. The article examines female exceptionalism as a source of narrative pleasure and considers the impact and significance of the insertion of feminist critiques into familiar story-lines. Th…
Silence in the Sewing Chamber: Le Roman de Silence
Following on from Howard Bloch's investigation of a ‘refusal of univocal meaning’ in the thirteenth-century Roman de Silence , this article examines the poem as inviting critics to investigate the collapse of binary systems such as male/female, in/out, language/silence, learned/natural, reward/punishment, innocent/guilty. Moving away from Bloch's focus on poetic language, this article examines the poem's systematic conflation of a woman's life wi…
Goading, ritual discord and the deflection of blame
This article brings some of the discourses of contemporary frame analysis to bear on female incitement — often called goading or whetting (from hvetja ‘to whet’) — in feud structures within several well-known medieval Icelandic family sagas. Broadly speaking, female goading in saga literature is a form of dialogic exchange in which women urge men to perform particular tasks, often seemingly against their will. These tasks mainly revolve around bl…
Goading, ritual discord and the deflection of blame
This article brings some of the discourses of contemporary frame analysis to bear on female incitement — often called goading or whetting (from hvetja ‘to whet’) — in feud structures within several well-known medieval Icelandic family sagas. Broadly speaking, female goading in saga literature is a form of dialogic exchange in which women urge men to perform particular tasks, often seemingly against their will. These tasks mainly revolve around bl…
Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends . Jody Enders
Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England . Theresa Coletti
Medievalism and the Fantasy Heroine
This essay aligns the narrative trajectories of a selected group of contemporary fantasy novels with various medieval sources, with an emphasis on the enduring cultural fantasy of the strong woman who rises above a general condition of female disenfranchisement. The article examines female exceptionalism as a source of narrative pleasure and considers the impact and significance of the insertion of feminist critiques into familiar story-lines. Th…
Silence in the Sewing Chamber: Le Roman de Silence
Following on from Howard Bloch's investigation of a ‘refusal of univocal meaning’ in the thirteenth-century Roman de Silence , this article examines the poem as inviting critics to investigate the collapse of binary systems such as male/female, in/out, language/silence, learned/natural, reward/punishment, innocent/guilty. Moving away from Bloch's focus on poetic language, this article examines the poem's systematic conflation of a woman's life wi…
Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature
Sarah Leavitt's Tangles: Teaching Queer Caregiving Memoir on Disability, and Pedagogy as Resistance
This article examines Sarah Leavitt's graphic novel Tangles: A story about Alzheimer's, my mother and me (2010, 2011 UK), in relation to queer identity, feminist wilfulness (Ahmed, 2014), and critical disability studies. Tangles takes up themes of lesbianism, disability, and activism, and it does so through storytelling. Studies around life writing and disability, including the dementia disease Alzheimer's, point the reader strongly toward recogn…
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Comics Classroom After Mahsa Amini
Since the 2022 death of Mahsa Jina Amini in custody of the Guidance Patrol or morality police in Tehran, Iran, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi can also function in the classroom as a comics touching point for human rights discourses around the world and in particular—though not exclusively—those that impact women. Kimberlé Crenshaw, who brought intersectionality to the forefront of cultural and political discourses in 1989, has used the phrase “say…
Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · History (6 works) · Medieval Literature and History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Classics (2 works)