Clio's European Daughters: Myopic Modes of Perception
- Author / Editor
- Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts.
Clio's European Daughters: Myopic Modes of Perception
- Published
- Julia A. Sherman and Evelyn Torton Beck, eds. The Prism of Sex: Essays in the Sociology of Knowledge (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979), pp. 33-53.
- Description
- One of the best and earliest observations of the basic distortion of history with regard to women and their roles is made by the Wife of Bath (III, 688-96). Christine de Pisan makes a comparable but more elaborate statement of the mistreatment of women by clerical historians.
- Contributor
- Sherman, Julia A.,
- Beck, Evelyn Torton,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Prism of Sex: Essays in the Sociology of Knowledge.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.