1. Wife of Bath
I will argue that by using this technique Chaucer is able to create a perceptive critic of misogynist orthodoxy who beats male scholars at their own game and creates her own authoritative position from which to speak in defense of her sex and convince the reader of her views. ... Though she has been married five times, she is childless in a period when there were no contraceptives and we know it is not for the lack of sex in her relations. ... As a result of this behavior, WB may be seen as a threat to the medieval hierarchy of power relations between the sexes because she violates the concept...
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