Feminizing Chaucer
"Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivity in human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this necessitates a reformulation of ideal masculinity."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2002
D.S. Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2002
Chaucer studies, 30
History
xxi, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
9780859916134, 0859916138
48932414
Women and betrayal
Antifeminism
The surrender of Maistrye
Suffering woman, suffering God
The feminized hero
Revised edition of: Geoffrey Chaucer. London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991