Cracking the Whip: Sadomasochistic Heroics in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Author / Editor
Finger, Roland.

Title
Cracking the Whip: Sadomasochistic Heroics in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Published
Exit 9: The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature 5 (2003): 65-74.

Description
Assesses the sexual relations between the Wife of Bath and her husbands in WBP as a dynamic between her sadism and their masochism. Through her sadism the Wife "avenges herself on the medieval patriarchal subordination of women."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale