The Sheela-na-Gig: An Incongruous Sign of Sexual Purity?

Author / Editor
Dor, Juliette.

Title
The Sheela-na-Gig: An Incongruous Sign of Sexual Purity?

Published
Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih, eds. Medieval Virginities (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), pp. 33-55.

Description
Dor links the exhibitionist sheela-na-gig with the widespread Celtic mythological motif of Lady Sovereignty that has been identified with the transformation motif in WBT.

Contributor
Bernau, Anke, ed.
Evans, Ruth, ed.
Salih, Sarah, ed.

Alternative Title
Medieval Virginities.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations