Description:
Raises the issues of species and gender in tandem, asking readers to consider more fully what happens to gender in medieval representations of nonhuman embodiment.
Brief description:
E. Jane Burns is the Druscilla French Distinguished Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, and adjunct professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Review Quotes:
"The anthology's contributors are an elite group of illuminati, educated and employed at the best schools and representing a particular wisdom of the present age 'to dislodge and reconfigure the long-standing constraints imposed by an understanding of the body as always human and of the human body as merely male and female.'" --Choice