Medieval Antifeminism and the Women in Chaucer's 'Fabliaux'

Author / Editor
Hamaguchi, Keiko.

Title
Medieval Antifeminism and the Women in Chaucer's 'Fabliaux'

Published
Doshisha Literature 33 (1988): 1-24.

Description
Examines the women in Chaucer's fabliaux in connection with the antifeminist tradition. Hamaguchi argues that Chaucer's view of women was complex, partly affected by the antifeminist tradition yet partly sympathetic to the feminist position.
Reprinted in Keiko Hamaguchi, Chaucer and Women (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2005).

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Women.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.