Contracts, Activist Feminism, and the "Wife of Bath's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Lipton, Emma.
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