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.

Title
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.