Criseyde, Consent, and the #MeToo Reader.

Author / Editor
Powrie, Sarah.

Title
Criseyde, Consent, and the #MeToo Reader.

Published
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.1 (2021): 18-33.

Description
Confronts the humor and "problematic sexual biases evident” in TC. Focuses on the consummation scene of Book III and the ways that "#MeToo activism" can inform a conversational pedagogy for engaging with the text, including analysis of the narrator's "victim-blaming" of Criseyde, Pandarus's "surreptitious coercion," and Troilus's susceptibility to biased gender assumptions--all viewed in light of comparative examples drawn from modern media and legal proceedings.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde