{"product_id":"hawking-women-falconry-gender-and-control-in-medieval-literary-culture-9780814215487","title":"Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture","description":"While critical discourse about falconry metaphors in premodern literature is dominated by depictions of women as unruly birds in need of taming, women in the Middle Ages claimed the symbol of a hawking woman on their personal seals, trained and flew hawks, and wrote and read poetic texts featuring female falconers. Sara Petrosillo's \u003ci\u003eHawking Women\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how cultural literacy in the art of falconry mapped, for medieval readers, onto poetry and challenged patriarchal control. Examining texts written by, for, or about women, \u003ci\u003eHawking Women\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers literary forms that arise from representations of avian and female bodies. Readings from \u003ci\u003eSir Orfeo\u003c\/i\u003e, Chrétien de Troyes, Guillaume de Machaut, Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e, and hawking manuals, among others, show how female characters are paired with their hawks not to assert dominance over the animal but instead to recraft the stand-in of falcon for woman as falcon \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e woman. In the avian hierarchy female hawks have always been the default, the dominant, and thus these medieval interspecies models contain lessons about how women resisted a culture of training and control through a feminist poetics of the falconry practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara Petrosillo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Evansville.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497513259282,"sku":"9780814215487","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a44e418-f070-4635-a0f3-21e217b0e072.jpg?v=1730713721","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hawking-women-falconry-gender-and-control-in-medieval-literary-culture-9780814215487","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}