Response: Chaucerian Values

Hansen, Elaine Tuttle

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“…25 Similarly, Hansen finds in certain comments of Donaldson about the Merchant's Tale a masculine discomfort-his own as well as the Merchant's-over signs that real and fictional women have "sexual desire, and hence, by the logic of masculine dominance and Christian thought, subjectivity that cannot be controlled." 26 In some ways, of course, Dinshaw and Hansen reverse the patristic analysis. They might be said to accuse Donaldson of repressing female sexuality-or its fictional representation-whereas D. W. Robertson, Jr., faults him for overvaluing it.…”

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Amorous Behavior: Sexism, Sin, and the Donaldson Persona

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2007

The Chaucer Review

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Amorous Behavior: Sexism, Sin, and the Donaldson Persona

Dyke¹

2007

The Chaucer Review

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Fragments and Foundations: Medieval Texts and the Future of Feminism

Williams

2007

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This article examines the development of feminist criticism and gender studies within medieval literary studies and the limited impact that feminist treatments of texts from the Middle Ages have had on the field of feminist theory and criticism more generally. I survey the past achievements by feminists working with medieval texts, noting that they focused primarily on concepts of femininity, representations of characters, or women writers. Then I explore the conflicting assessments of the present status of feminism within medieval literary studies. Finally, I argue that there are three primary areas for future research: the expansion of the feminist 'canon', interactions within and between texts, and the intersections of language and gender. Feminism has achieved many of its original goals and now has been largely supplanted by gender and sexuality studies, including queer theory. However, I conclude that medieval texts offer new directions for feminist inquiry because they contain the origins of gendered language in English; medieval texts reveal that the meanings of words like womanhood, femininity, and wifehood have been disparate and contested from their first usages and thereby defamiliarize our modern usages of those same terms.

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Response: Chaucerian Values

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Amorous Behavior: Sexism, Sin, and the Donaldson Persona

Amorous Behavior: Sexism, Sin, and the Donaldson Persona

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Fragments and Foundations: Medieval Texts and the Future of Feminism

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