The Feminization of Men in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
The Feminization of Men in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Sheila Fisher and Janet E. Halley, eds. Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989), pp. 51-70.
- Description
- LGW is a "poem for and about men and their anxieties about sex and gender." Courtly love is incompatible with the patriarchal drive to dominate. The subject of LGW is "male homosocial desire."
- Alternative Title
- Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.