MEDIEVAL WOMEN AND PATRIARCHAL AGORAPHOBIA: CHAUCER’S THE PRIORESS AND THE WIFE OF BATH

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MEDIEVAL WOMEN AND PATRIARCHAL AGORAPHOBIA: CHAUCER’S THE PRIORESS AND THE WIFE OF BATH

Yazarlar:

Oya Bayıltmış Öğütcü

Yayıncı:

Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar:

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi Issue 69, pp.289-298

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2025

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001354331

pISSN:

1308-2922

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 Spatial limitations have been among the means used by patriarchal societies to assert control over womens gender and sexuality. Similarly, the patriarchal society controlled womens spatial practices in medieval England. Both the secular women and the religious women were prone to spatial limitations that were regulated according to their social and sexual statuses. While the enclosure was at the core of a religious womans life at the nunnery, a secular womans moving beyond her village or city was severely criticized in the Middle Ages. Patriarchal agoraphobia defined such women in the open space as open space, implying their sexual vulnerability. However, from the fourteenth century onwards, both secular and religious women began rejecting such spatial limitations as exemplified by the Prioress and the Wife of Bath in Chaucers Canterbury Tales. Accordingly, blending Henri Lefebvres ideas on the production of space with Victor Turners ideas about liminality, this article aims to discuss how medieval women challenged, through their spatial practices, the idea that women in the open space were defined as the open space through an analysis of the spatial practices of the Prioress and the Wife of Bath.

 Spatial limitations have been among the means used by patriarchal societies to assert control over womens gender and sexuality. Similarly, the patriarchal society controlled womens spatial practices in medieval England. Both the secular women and the religious women were prone to spatial limitations that were regulated according to their social and sexual statuses. While the enclosure was at the core of a religious womans life at the nunnery, a secular womans moving beyond her village or city was severely criticized in the Middle Ages. Patriarchal agoraphobia defined such women in the open space as open space, implying their sexual vulnerability. However, from the fourteenth century onwards, both secular and religious women began rejecting such spatial limitations as exemplified by the Prioress and the Wife of Bath in Chaucers Canterbury Tales. Accordingly, blending Henri Lefebvres ideas on the production of space with Victor Turners ideas about liminality, this article aims to discuss how medieval women challenged, through their spatial practices, the idea that women in the open space were defined as the open space through an analysis of the spatial practices of the Prioress and the Wife of Bath.

 Spatial limitations have been among the means used by patriarchal societies to assert control over womens gender and sexuality. Similarly, the patriarchal society controlled womens spatial practices in medieval England. Both the secular women and the religious women were prone to spatial limitations that were regulated according to their social and sexual statuses. While the enclosure was at the core of a religious womans life at the nunnery, a secular womans moving beyond her village or city was severely criticized in the Middle Ages. Patriarchal agoraphobia defined such women in the open space as open space, implying their sexual vulnerability. However, from the fourteenth century onwards, both secular and religious women began rejecting such spatial limitations as exemplified by the Prioress and the Wife of Bath in Chaucers Canterbury Tales. Accordingly, blending Henri Lefebvres ideas on the production of space with Victor Turners ideas about liminality, this article aims to discuss how medieval women challenged, through their spatial practices, the idea that women in the open space were defined as the open space through an analysis of the spatial practices of the Prioress and the Wife of Bath.

 Mekânsal kısıtlamalar, ataerkil toplumların kadınların cinsiyetlerini ve cinselliklerini kontrol edebilmek için kullandıkları araçlar arasında yer almıştır. Aynı şekilde, Ortaçağ İngilteresinde de ataerkil toplum kadınların mekânsal pratikleri kontrol etmekteydi. Sadece seküler kadınlar değil dindar kadınlar da sosyal ve cinsel statülerine uygun olarak düzenlenmiş olan mekânsal kısıtlamalara tabiydiler. Ortaçağda manastırdaki dindar bir kadının hayatının merkezinde dış dünyaya kapanmış olmak yer alırken, seküler bir kadının köyünün ya da şehrinin sınırlarının dışına çıkması sert bir şekilde eleştirilirdi. Ataerkil agorafobi bu tür açık alandaki kadınları, cinsel hassasiyetlerini vurgulayacak şekilde açık alan olarak tanımlamaktaydı. Ancak, Chaucerın Canterbury Hikayeleri eserindeki Baş Rahibe ve Bathlı Kadın karakterleri tarafından örneklendiği üzere, on dördüncü yüzyıl itibariyle hem seküler hem de dindar kadınların bu tür mekânsal kısıtlamaları reddetmeye başladıkları görülmektedir. Bu bağlamda bu makale, Henri Lefebvrein mekânın üretimine dair fikirlerini Victor Turnerin eşiktelik konusundaki fikirleri ile harmanlayarak, Baş Rahibe ve Bathlı Kadının mekânsal pratiklerinin incelemesiyle, Ortaçağ kadınlarının mekânsal pratikleri aracılığıyla açık alandaki kadını açık alan olarak tanımlayan fikre nasıl karşı çıktıklarını tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Makale detayları

MEDIEVAL WOMEN AND PATRIARCHAL AGORAPHOBIA: CHAUCER’S THE PRIORESS AND THE WIFE OF BATH

Yazarlar:

Oya Bayıltmış Öğütcü

Yayıncı:

Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar:

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi Issue 69, pp.289-298

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2025

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001354331

pISSN:

1308-2922

Spatial practices

Patriarchal agoraphobia

Chaucer

the Prioress

the Wife of BathMekânsal pratikler

Ataerkil agorafobi

Chaucer

Baş Rahibe

Bath’lı Kadın

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Oya Bayıltmış Öğütcü

Yayıncı: Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar: İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi: Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi Issue 69, pp.289-298

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 7/2025

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2001354331

pISSN: 1308-2922

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Oya Bayıltmış Öğütcü

Yayıncı:

Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar:

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi Issue 69, pp.289-298

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2025

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001354331

pISSN:

1308-2922