The Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Newton, Allyson.
The Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Published
- John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler, eds. Medieval Mothering (New York and London: Garland, 1996), pp. 63-77.
- Description
- Classical and medieval theories of sexual reproduction privilege the male role as active and occlude the female as passive. This occlusion is paralleled by the plot and language of ClT, in which mothering is subordinated to paternalistic concerns with lineage.
- Contributor
- Parsons, John Carmi,
- Wheeler, Bonnie,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Mothering.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.