Chaucer's Women and Women's Chaucer

Author / Editor
Diamond, Arlyn.

Title
Chaucer's Women and Women's Chaucer

Published
Arlyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards, eds. The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977), pp. 60-83.

Description
A feminist analysis of the "Marriage Group" reveals that Chaucer draws his characterization of women largely from medieval stereotypes. He is unable to go beyond a Griselda (Virgin Mary) or a Dame Alisoun (Eve) to create a female "both virtuous and three-dimensional."

Contributor
Diamond, Arlyn,
Edwards, Lee R.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Clerk and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.