Reading Rape in Chaucer; or Are Cecily, Lucretia, and Philomela Good Women?
- Author / Editor
- Warburton, Rachel.
Reading Rape in Chaucer; or Are Cecily, Lucretia, and Philomela Good Women?
- Published
- Mihoko Suzuki and Roseanna Dufault, eds. Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004 (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2006), pp. 270-87.
- Description
- Warburton explores historical and literary connections between notions of female "goodness" and ability to be raped, examining the discourse of Cecily Chaumpaigne's accusation of rape and the tales of Lucretia and Philomela in LGW. The afterword, newly published here, emphasizes the way LGW renders impossible "female pleasures and intimacy between women." Originally published in Henry Street 10.1 (2003): 5-28.
- Contributor
- Suzuki, Mihoko, ed.
- Dufault, Roseanna, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Chaucer's Life.