Clio's European Daughters: Myopic Modes of Perception

Author / Editor
Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts.

Title
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.