Retelling Chaucer's Wife of Bath for Modern Children: Picture Books and Evolving Feminism

Author / Editor
Barrington, Candace.

Title
Retelling Chaucer's Wife of Bath for Modern Children: Picture Books and Evolving Feminism

Published
Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Katherine A. Hermes, eds. Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), pp. 26-51.

Description
Modern adapters of Chaucer interfere with the transmission of Chaucer by infusing their own values. In each era, the versions written for children bear witness to what aspects of feminism have reached popular culture.

Contributor
Ritzenhoff, Karen A., ed.
Hermes, Katherine A., ed.

Alternative Title
Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.