Chaucer's Anti-Misogynist Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Oberembt, Kenneth J.
Chaucer's Anti-Misogynist Wife of Bath
- Published
- Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 287-302.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath first weakens the conventional notion of men as reasonable and women as sensual by showing how sensual and unworthy of sovereignty were her five husbands. Then she overthrows this notion when her own feminine-sensual image dissolves into that of the masculine-rational hag.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.