Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 2424
Author(s): Burger, Glenn.
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Title : Erotic Discipline...Or "Tee Hee, I Like My Boys To Be Girls": Inventing With the Body in Chaucer's "Millers Tale"
Source: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1997.  Pages 245 - 260.
Year of Publication: 1997.
2. Record Number: 1624
Author(s): Straus, Barrie Ruth.
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Title : Freedom Through Renunciation? Women's Voices, Women's Bodies, and the Phallic Order [female literary characters who want to abstain from sex].
Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler .   University of Toronto Press, 1996.  Pages 245 - 264.
Year of Publication: 1996.
3. Record Number: 255
Author(s): Farvolden, Pamela.
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Title : Love Can No Frenship: Erotic Triangles in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and Lydgate's "Fabula duorum mercatorum"
Source: Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature.   Edited by Muriel Whitaker .   Garland Publishing, 1995.  Pages 21 - 44.
Year of Publication: 1995.
4. Record Number: 7347
Author(s): McInerney, Maud Burnett.
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Title : Chaucerian Ritual and Patriarchal Romance [The author argues that in adapting Boccaccio's Teseida, Chaucer marginalizes its female characters, and, as a result, masculinizes his own narrative romance, "The Knight's Tale." Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Chaucer Yearbook , 1., ( 1992):  Pages 65 - 86.
Year of Publication: 1992.
5. Record Number: 11201
Author(s): Woods, William F.
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Title : My Sweete Foo: Emelye’s Role in "The Knight’s Tale" [In this poem, the maiden Emelye acts as a mediator between the knights Palamon and Arcite. In terms of the poem’s narrative, Emelye is the love object whom both men desire. In terms of the thematic and poetic structure of the poem, Emelye represents the ambiguous vector between various types of opposing philosophical concepts (represented by the two male characters): for instance, humanity vs. nature, mercy vs. justice, love vs. war, individual desire vs. divine will. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Studies in Philology , 88., 3 (Summer 1991):  Pages 276 - 306.
Year of Publication: 1991.
6. Record Number: 12861
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Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Romance and Feminine Difference in "The Knight's Tale" [The article explores the ways in which Chaucer‚s generic revisions to Boccaccio's Teseida reveal a romance sensibility in "The Knight's Tale." Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 12., ( 1990):  Pages 47 - 63.
Year of Publication: 1990.