Reconsidering the Use of Gender Stereotypes in Medieval Romance: Figures of Vulnerability and of Power.
- Author / Editor
- Lawton, Lesley.
Reconsidering the Use of Gender Stereotypes in Medieval Romance: Figures of Vulnerability and of Power.
- Published
- Miranda: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone 12 (2016): 1-21. Open access journal at http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/8646 (accessed February 6, 2022).
- Description
- Explores how medieval romances convey stereotypes that "often appear as a feature of tales of identity in which the male subject position of active self-affirmation is partly developed in relation to female figures" of vulnerability. Includes comments on how, in ClT, "Griselda's Christ-like and Job-like qualities give her a masculine authority and an actively complicit role in her testing which disturbs the gender politics of wifely submission to a husband’s will."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale