Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” and the Struggle for Female Equality
Number of pages:
5
ABSTRACT:
This 5 page report discusses “Wife of Bath” and the ways in which Chaucer uses this overbearing and patently obnoxious woman to challenge a number of the most common beliefs about a woman’s appropriate subservience. Moralists and theologians have given themselves the authority to create a definition of women that keeps her in her “appropriate” place in the world. The Wife of Bath puts those definitions and assumptions where they belong.
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File: D0_BWbath.rtf
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