Chaucer's Wenches.
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Carissa M.
Chaucer's Wenches.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 35-72.
- Description
- Surveys and critiques "wench" as a term and a concept in medieval English texts and explores how "Chaucer’s wenches [in CT] embody the term's developing signification of intersectional disadvantage connected to age, gender, labor, reproductive capacity, and socioeconomic status." Links this signification with discourse about Black women in the American South and with the US Supreme Court’s anti-abortion decision, "Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization" (June 2022).
- Alternative Title
- The Biennial Chaucer Lecture. The New Chaucer Society. Twenty-Second International Congress, July 11-14, 2022, Durham University, Durham, UK.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Canterbury Tales--General