Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text

Published
Sheila Delany. Writing Woman (New York: Schocken Books, 1983), pp.47-75.

Description
Psychological and cultural interpretation of PhyT and ManT murders of women motivated by misogynistic violence and impulse to control women. Both tales displace attention to trivialities: woman and nature (PhyT) and natural lust (ManT).

Alternative Title
Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
Physician and His Tale.