A Wife, a Batterer, a Rapist : Representations of 'Masculinity' in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Author / Editor
Biebel, Elizabeth M.

Title
A Wife, a Batterer, a Rapist : Representations of 'Masculinity' in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Published
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 63-75.

Description
WBT reveals the Wife's idealized vision of society. The Tale answers her society's gender inequities, which victimize both men and women, by depicting a world wherein ultimately women and men are recognized as individuals.

Alternative Title
Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.