The Wife of Bath and Women's Power

Author / Editor
Amsler, Mark.

Title
The Wife of Bath and Women's Power

Published
Assays 4 (1986): 67-83.

Description
The Wife of Bath's performance constitutes a bourgeois, female countercommentary by a literate property owner to the dominant male aristocratic and ecclesiastical conceptions of marriage, sex, learning, and economic power in the later Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.