In the chapter 3 of Manne’s book, she outlines the differences between sexism and misogyny. What moment in the first half of Roman de Silence do you feel there is an act of sexism? Of misogyny?
Feb. 13 – Roman de Silence
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In the chapter 3 of Manne’s book, she outlines the differences between sexism and misogyny. What moment in the first half of Roman de Silence do you feel there is an act of sexism? Of misogyny?
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?