Chaucer's Pardoner as Female Eunuch
- Author / Editor
- Myers, Jeffrey Rayner.
Chaucer's Pardoner as Female Eunuch
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 72: 54-62, 2000.
- Description
- The Pardoner is not a male homosexual but a cross-dressed female through whom Chaucer reveals the constricting gender roles available to women of his time. PardPT metaphorizes the social relations forced on a female trapped in the ambivalence of dealing with those relations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.