Chaucer's Pardoner as Female Eunuch

Author / Editor
Myers, Jeffrey Rayner.

Title
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.