Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn't
- Author / Editor
- Lochrie, Karma.
Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn't
- Published
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 178 pp.
- Description
- Lochrie theorizes what sexualities, particularly female sexuality, might "have looked like before heterosexuality and the normal" were constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by statistical practices, exploring various medieval texts, Latin and vernacular, to disclose "preheteronormative" sexuality. Examines the "Virginity Group" of CT (KnT, ClT, PhyT, PrT, and SNT) in the context of "Lollard anxieties" about female chastity and orthodox critiques of affective female spirituality, also considering the Prioress in this light. Considers the close attention to female clitoral desire in WBPT and argues for thematic connections among the Wife, the Pardoner, and SNT. Like other medieval representations of Amazons, Hippolyta and Emily of KnT link violence, chastity, and female masculinity, which are also linked in MilT and elsewhere in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.