'Slydinge of Corage': Chaucer's Criseyde as Feminist and Victim

Author / Editor
Fries, Maureen.

Title
'Slydinge of Corage': Chaucer's Criseyde as Feminist and Victim

Published
Arlyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards, eds. The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977), pp. 45-59.

Description
Although the heroine speaks bravely in TC of being her "owene womman," Chaucer's "would-be feminist" is continually victimized by the male-dominated society largely responsible for her limited views about sexual roles.

Contributor
Diamond, Arlyn,
Edwards, Lee R.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.