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This study examines Chaucer’s use of the medieval literary topos which categorized women as either good or evil, and his use of the Song of the Valiant Woman, a pericope appended to the book of Proverbs. It surveys the tradition of Hebraic and Christian commentary on the valiant woman; the significance of the Proverbs epilogue in the works of other authors; analyzes Chaucer’s six thematic images of the mulier fortis as mirrored and distorted in the wives’ behavior; discusses the implications that his delineation of the ideal wives has on medieval and modern conceptions of women. It also provides a definition of feminine power that re-evaluates the question of maistrie within the tales and challenges the modern feminist attitude towards women’s power. Other Womens Studies Books 2014 – Two Women Writers and Their Italian Tours: Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy 1840, 1842 and 1843 and Lucja Rautenstrauchowa’s in and Beyond the Alps 1996 – Contemporary Women Writing in the Other Americas Volume Two: Contemporary Women Writing in the Caribbean 2018 – A Bibliography of 13,632 Novels Written by British and American Women from 1500-1900: Listed and Cross-Listed by Birth Name and Married Name Volume 1
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