Contracts, Activist Feminism, and the "Wife of Bath's Tale."

Author / Editor
Lipton, Emma.

Title
Contracts, Activist Feminism, and the "Wife of Bath's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 335-51.

Description
Argues that WBT presents a different vision of law, informed by female agency, where the focus is on reeducation. The rapist-knight is rewarded rather than punished, but this failure of justice functions as a call to activism, as the law so depicted presents new possibilities for justice.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale