Gender and Sexuality
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
Gender and Sexuality
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 179-98.
- Description
- Burger characterizes second-wave feminism as a precursor of gay and lesbian studies, arguing that queer theory desires and explores the past in particularized rather than universalized ways, in part to "trouble Foucault's epistemic break between the medieval and the modern." Burger considers the current state(s) of feminist, queer, and transgender studies and imagines how "medievalist gender critics" can "remake the human" by the undoing of gender. Examples from Chaucer studies appear throughout.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.