'Thanne Have I Gete of Yow Maistrie': Power and the Subversive Body in Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Alexander, Laura.
'Thanne Have I Gete of Yow Maistrie': Power and the Subversive Body in Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Published
- Hortulus 1 (2005): n.p.
- Description
- Traditonal mind (male)/body (female) distinctions are insufficient for discussing WBPT because the Wife celebrates "reason, learning, and open sexuality as rights given to women." In the Wife's relations with Jankin and in the Loathly Lady of WBT, Chaucer anticipates feminist efforts to redefine marriage as a free relationship between the sexes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.