1. The anti-antifeminist Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales
Recognizing male dominance plays its oppressing force in the society, therefore, he brings into concerns the endeavoring strife of women under the demanding masculine power. ... Nevertheless, his over joy runs so wild that it almost spoils his reason and makes him slight the sorrow from the ladies, who have suffered the militant invasion causing their husbands' death. ... During the medieval age, Christianity divided women into two categories including the angel-like and the shrewish. ... "The social function of woman is sufficiently defined by male-generated strictures on purity and w...
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