Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons

In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer''s poetry. She argues convincingly that these are Chaucer''s major subjects and that he presents them as an area of human experience fraught with problems. Women, instead of producing texts and meanings themselves, are trapped in the books and meanings of others, and so the Madonna and the cour...