Flying, Hunting, Reading: Rethinking Falcon–Woman Comparisons.

Description: Observes how the "tension between control and release" in premodern falconry is "salient for feminist approaches to representations of gender when birds stand in for women's sexual bodies," exploring the implications of associations between women and hunting birds in medieval art and literature, and concluding with discussion of how a "feminist poetics" emerges from consideration of the interaction between Canacee and the falcon in SqT.