The Performance of Gender in the Prioress

Author / Editor
Hahn, Thomas.

Title
The Performance of Gender in the Prioress

Published
Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 11-34.

Description
Examines PrT and the Prioress's sketch in GP as reflexes of gender performance and the historical conditions that shaped such performances. The anti-Semitism of her tale results from her suppression of her "bodiliness," represented in a fetishizing of human waste.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.