Becoming Woman in Chaucer: 'On ne nat pas femme, on le meurt'
- Author / Editor
- Gilbert, Jane.
Becoming Woman in Chaucer: 'On ne nat pas femme, on le meurt'
- Published
- Nicola F. McDonald and W. M. Ormrod, eds. Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century (York: York Medieval Press, 2005), pp. 109-31
- Description
- Gilbert's anthropological reading of BD and LGW emphasizes how in BD Blanche is represented as having successfully left the land of the living for the land of the dead. In LGW, the female protagonists resist this rite of passage and, in doing so, resist the social conventions that underlie it.
- Contributor
- McDonald, Nicola F., ed.
- Ormrod, W. M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Book of the Duchess