Monstrous (M)othering): The Representation of the Sowdanesse in Chaucer's Man of Law' Tale
- Author / Editor
- Niebrzydowski, Sue.
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.