The Equality of Women in Chaucers Wife of Bath

The Equality of Women in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath There have been many different interpretations of what Geoffrey Chaucer stood for, but one of the most argued is that of the equality of women. As seen in several of Chaucer’s works, this is especially exhibited in the Canterbury Tales. Although some scholars debate that he was only writing down what he saw in his present society, others insist that he was very much …

…than 500 years of crying, they got it. Bibliography Carruthers, Mary. “The Wife of Bath and the painting of the lions.” Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 22-53. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New York: Bantam Books, 1964. Hallissy, Margaret. Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows : Chaucer’s Women and Medieval Codes of Conduct. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1993 Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.