Women and Disability in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Pearman, Tory Vandeventer.
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 206 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Theorizes how medieval medical and social discourses link the "categories of 'woman' and 'disabled,'" a linking anchored in the notion that women are defective men. Compares the notion of reproduction in MerT and "Dame Sirith"; punishment of women in WBP and Geoffrey de la Tour-Landry's "Book of the Knight"; enchantment and punishment in "Bisclavret," "Sir Launfal," and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid"; and motherhood and disability in the "Book of Margery Kempe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Merchant and His Tale