Chaucer's women : nuns, wives and Amazons
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Chaucer's women : nuns, wives and Amazons
University of Iowa Press, 1990
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Description
This is a feminist study of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. The author argues that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he sees them as areas fraught with problems. The author considers the areas of role and stereotype, gender and genre, and power and subversion. The book concludes with an account of the relationships between discourse, silence, sex and gender, and of Chaucer's changing attitudes to his subjects and his poems.
Table of Contents
- The man with the book or who painted the lion?
- two ideals - the drama and the Duchess
- two misfits - the nun and the wife
- the amazon and the wise woman or God knows what she thought
- the merchandise of love - winners and wasters, wives and merchants
- real women in imaginary gardens
- the saints
- Criseyde
- the women in the books
- sex, discourse and silence.
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