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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society sprayed edges As tensions between the ManchuGoing Medieval on Women's Roles in Society What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blend of classical Greek and Roman