Chaucer's Hermaphroditic Purse

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Speaker: Diane Cady, Mills College

This talk focus on the gender ideology that undergirds Chaucer's short poem, "Chaucer's Complaint to his Purse."

Chaucer's poem provides a revealing example of how fears and fantasies about money in the late Middle Ages are articulated through gender ideology, a legacy that continues to shape the way we think about money today.