Freedom Through Renunciation? Women's Voices, Women's Bodies and the Phallic Order
- Author / Editor
- Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Freedom Through Renunciation? Women's Voices, Women's Bodies and the Phallic Order
- Published
- Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 245-64.
- Description
- The formel eagle in PF, Emily in KnT, and Margery Kempe seek to delay or renounce sexual activity. The eagle's blush embodies her later request to delay a choice of mate; Emily's desire to remain unmarried is marked by her desire to reject the "physical effects of heterosexuality." In these works, as in Margery Kempe, female choice is constrained by masculine discourse.
- Alternative Title
- Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Knight and His Tale.