Essay on “Math son of Mathonwy,” the Fourth Branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogi., published in the top-tier feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. First presented in David Townsend’s Theory seminar at the Centre for Medieval Studies, spring 2004.
“Matrilineal Subjects” was one of three finalists for the 2007 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.
Full bibliographical reference:
Sarah Sheehan, “Matrilineal Subjects: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Metamorphosis in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 34.2 (2009), 319–42.
Founded in 1975, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is an academic journal published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press.
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Sarah Sheehan 