"Far semed her hart from obeysaunce": Strategies of Resistance in "The Isle of Ladies."

Description: Reads "The Isle of Ladies" for its "covert feminine resistance," arguing that such resistance is evident through the "divided, ambivalent lens" of the half-asleep dream vision of a city of ladies--perhaps influenced by Christine de Pizan's "Le livre de la Cité des Dames." The English poem discloses "networks and desires sustained by women" that are "lesbian-like," and its narrator participates in these networks, including literary production, and leads readers to "desire to reenter the isle of women."