"The wil of his wif": Discourse, power, and gender in Chaucer's The Tale of Melibee
In the Tale of Melibee, Chaucer gives us an excellent illustration of a point French theorist Michel Foucault would make centuries later: That power is something that moves and shifts between people and within institutions, that it is not fixed nor permanent, that it is used as needed toward specifi...
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Scholar Commons
2005
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2941 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3940&context=etd |