1. Wife of Bath
... a woman's power of discourse. Her prologue itself is masculine in it is a mock sermon. Preaching and interpretation of scripture involved rationality, that according to men, a characteristic unknown to women. WB quotes scriptures to support her remarriages. She also refers to other texts like Valerius and Theophrastus and Jovinian, which are anti-feminist texts, in a way that was backwards in order to ... in the deportment books but are set in the marriage bed" (Carruthers 114). The wife justifies her five marriages using the same methods the "authority" used to condemn her. She quotes ...
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