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Gender and the Grail
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 1998
- pp. 67-79
- 10.1353/art.1998.0077
- Article
- Additional Information
Earlier images of Arthurian women emerge in new configurations in Malory's version of the Grail Quest. Perceval's sister, a guide and helper to the knights, ends in a self-chosen, bloody sacrifice. Guinevere contributes to the failure of the homosocial ideal.