... is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition" (Source Book 211). Chaucer refutes popular misogynistic perspectives propagated by the religious authorities of his time, such as those of St. Jerome in The Canterbury Tales. "If a women be ... for a very different historical context (xviii). While I refute the patristic and feminism criticism that argues the Wife is meant to be the supreme embodiment...

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