BodytalkContemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary representations of womenfrom the excessively beautiful lady of courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farceare the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy. In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is designed