1. Quotations from the works of Geoffrey Chaucer are from Larry D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), and will be cited by line numbers parenthetically in the text.
2. Nancy A. Jones, online review of E. Jane Burns, Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) in Bryn Mawr Medieval Review (now The Medieval Review) 94.11.5, November 29, 1994.
3. Stephanie Jed, Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucrece and the Birth of Humanism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
4. Elaine Tuttle Hansen’s introduction to Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), discusses the use of “Feminist Chaucer,” pp. 10–15, for example.
5. Carolyn Dinshaw, Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989); Jill Mann, Geoffrey Chaucer (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1991).