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Abstract: »Advancing and complicating this focus on gender and coercion, Rowan Wilson in Chapter 3, ‘“You do not get to consent to yourself, even if you might deserve the chance”: Nature’s Coercion and Transgender Volition in Le Roman de Silence’, analyses cis-normative gender as a coercive force in the thirteenth-century Old French Roman de Silence, allegorised in the tyranny of ‘Nature’ over the text’s transgender protagonist, Silence. Wilson interrogates the violent, sexualised language that describes Nature’s attempts to force Silence into conformity with the female identity assigned to him at birth, explores the connections between that language and the text’s depictions of sexual coercion, and considers the affective implications of these choices for a transgender reading of Silence.« (Source: Bonsall, Jane, and Hannah Piercy. »Introduction: Why Reconsider Medieval Consent and Coercion? Why Now?« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 30)

Contents:

	‘U jo sui nus’: Silence’s transgender volition (p. 75)
	‘C’iert ma fille’: Nature’s cis-normative coercion (p. 82)
	Conclusion (p. 89)

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