Monstrous (M)othering): The Representation of the Sowdanesse in Chaucer's Man of Law' Tale

Author / Editor
Niebrzydowski, Sue.

Title
Monstrous (M)othering): The Representation of the Sowdanesse in Chaucer's Man of Law' Tale

Published
Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters, eds. Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002), pp. 196-207.

Description
Reads the Sultaness of MLT as the antithesis of Western medieval ideals of motherhood, the opposite of Constance, and a reification of distorted notions of women of color.

Alternative Title
Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.