Erotic Discipline...or 'Tee Hee, I Like My Boys to Be Girls': Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
Erotic Discipline...or 'Tee Hee, I Like My Boys to Be Girls': Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Jeffrey Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler, eds. Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New York and London: Garland, 1997), pp. 480-99.
- Description
- MilT reproduces the "sadism" of KnT in its assertion of heteronormativity but simultaneously resists this sadism. In the bedroom-window scene, gender is loosened and "queered," enabling readers to escape from the hegemony of masculinist and heterosexual perspectives.
- Alternative Title
- Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.