Preface
Introduction: Listening to Bodies Talk
PART I. KNOWING WOMEN
Chapter One: A Close Look at Female Orifices in Farce and
Fabliau
—Head or Ass? Refocusing the Penis-Eye
—Lips or Labia? How Headless Women Speak
Chapter Two: A Taste of Knowledge: Genesis and Generation in the
Jeu d'Adam
—Mind Over Matter: Why Women Should Be Silent
—Matter Before Mind: How Women Come First
PART II. DESIRING LADIES
Chapter Three: Beauty in the Blindspot: Philomena's Talking
Hands
Chapter Four: Rewriting Men's Stories: Enide's Disruptive
Mouths
Chapter Five: Why Beauty Laughs
In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is designed to convey.
E. Jane Burns is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of "This Prick Which Is Not One" in Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, edited by Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), and of Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle.
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