Sexual Economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Sexual Economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe
- Published
- Minnesota Review, New Series 5 (1975): 104-15.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath turned the sexual economics of her time to her advantage. Margery Kempe could not so capitulate. Religion became her way of asserting ownership of herself.
- Reprinted in Sheila Delany, Writing Women: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern (Schocken, 1984), 76-92, and in Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson, eds., Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature (Routledge, 1994), 72-87.
- Alternative Title
- Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.