Feb. 11 – Dinshaw and Sir Gawain

On page 213 and 214 of Dinshaw’s article, she compares Gawain to the dismembered and gutted female deer that is hunted on the first day. She writes that “this unlacing of the body is the poem’s visual representation of straight gender identity’s failing” (214). Are there any other instances throughout the poem in which heterosexual identity is compromised?