SCHRONIENIE CZY PUŁAPKA? ROLA PRZESTRZENI ZAMKNIĘTEJ W XIII-WIECZNYCH OPOWIEŚCIACH O KOBIETACH UCIEKAJĄCYCH W MĘSKIM PRZEBRANIU
A Shelter or a Trap? The Role of the Closed Space in the Thirteenth-century Tales about Women Who Are Running Away Disguised as Men

Author(s): Joanna Augustyniak
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: cross-dressing; closed space; gender; sacred/secular
Summary/Abstract: Women disguised as men usually have access to open space providing them with freedom, which traditionally men take advantage of. Some of the women, though, reach the closed spaces such as grottos or cells of a recluse, which become not only their shelter but also the place of their spiritual improvement. In a secular sphere, though, the closed room becomes a trap for the disguised woman: although she was successful in the battlefield, in the queen’s bedroom she will not be able to fulfill the role of a lover and will be forced to resign from her ambiguous identity.

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