A Wife, a Batterer, a Rapist : Representations of 'Masculinity' in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Biebel, Elizabeth M.
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.