Sexual Politics in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' and 'Tale': The Rhetorics of Domestic Violence and Rape
- Author / Editor
- Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie Elaine.
Sexual Politics in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' and 'Tale': The Rhetorics of Domestic Violence and Rape
- Published
- Readerly/Writerly Texts 11-12 (2004-05): 155-62.
- Description
- WBPT can be seen as Alison's "therapeutic" attempts to "educate the public at large" about domestic violence and rape. Although she succumbs at times to the rhetoric of "the woman as commodity" and misunderstands herself as "unrapeable," Alison vindicates women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.