The story of the “Wife of Bath” in The Canterbury Tales is told by a woman who readers view as a feminist. She objectifies men for money, social standers, and sex. She has had five husbands in her lifetime and believes pleasing men is a way she gains control and power. The Wife is definitely lives a type of rebel lifestyle in the time period of 1300s. In the memoir She’s Not There a Life in Two Genders, Jennifer Boylan talks about her transition as accepting her life a transgender. Stories are the thing that help the Wife of Bath and Jennifer Boylan define themselves as women.
The prologue for “The Wife of Bath” talks about her past with her husbands and the affect they have on her. Out of her five husbands, three of them were good they had
The prologue for “The Wife of Bath” talks about her past with her husbands and the affect they have on her. Out of her five husbands, three of them were good they had