{"product_id":"hawking-women-sara-petrosillo-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, Chr騁ien 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Petrosillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814215483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814215487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Sara Petrosillo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070856327423,"sku":"9780814215487","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06eb147b-8a52-4ee4-8b2f-d6f9366967ea.jpg?v=1685432737","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hawking-women-sara-petrosillo-9780814215487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}