... seems relaxed and sits "esily" on her ambler. Her portrait on the Harvard website shows that she rides her horse astride, against the normalic of sidesaddle for women. We can imagine that WB puts aside the more "lady-like" style of riding at her own convince while traveling the road to ... Canterbury (Biebel 64). How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ... radical ideas on gender theory, demonstrate liberation from gender role restrictions, and defiantly rebuke "auctoritee" by playing with the slippage, ambivalence, and reversa...

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