Teaching the Resistent Woman: The Wife of Bath and the Academy

Author / Editor
Hahn, Thomas.

Title
Teaching the Resistent Woman: The Wife of Bath and the Academy

Published
Exemplaria 4 (1992): 431-40.

Description
In WBP, Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as Woman conceived in terms of masculine discourse. His presentation makes authoritative misogynist discourse both familiar and available for questioning.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.