Ecofeminism and the Father of English Poetry: Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'

Author / Editor
Kordecki, Lesley.

Title
Ecofeminism and the Father of English Poetry: Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'

Published
Isle 10.1 (2003): 97-114.

Description
Describes how Chaucer reaches beyond the phallocentrism and "human parochialism" of his time by giving voice to the feminine and the animal in PF, even though the poem ends with a return to masculinist, human-centered subjectivity.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls