Chaucer's Chicks: Feminism and Falconry in 'The Knight's Tale,' 'The Squire's Tale,' and The Parliament of Fowls
- Author / Editor
- Gutmann, Sara.
Chaucer's Chicks: Feminism and Falconry in 'The Knight's Tale,' 'The Squire's Tale,' and The Parliament of Fowls
- Published
- Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 69-83.
- Description
- Although some falconers were female, the activity of training (often female) falcons is highly gendered. The necessity of the falcon to be tamed is paralleled in the need for Emelye in KnT to submit to heterosexual marriage, and for Canacee in SqT to be "managed" by powerful males.
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Parliament of Fowls