Beauty and the Beast and the Little Boy: Clues about the Origins of Sexism and Racism from Folklore and Literature: Chaucer's 'The Prioress's Tale', 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', the Alliterative 'Morte Arthure', Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi', Sha
- Author / Editor
- Rice, Nancy Hall.
Beauty and the Beast and the Little Boy: Clues about the Origins of Sexism and Racism from Folklore and Literature: Chaucer's 'The Prioress's Tale', 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', the Alliterative 'Morte Arthure', Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi', Sha
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1975): 875A.
- Description
- The mistaken belief that sin was connected with death and sexuality led to the need to find a scapegoat. The result was virulence against women, Jews, or other denigrated casts. The virulence of the dominant group against the Jews in PrT can be explained as psychosexual.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.