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4 pages in length. Throughout history, women have had one – and only one – trump card to play in an otherwise patriarchal society. The female gender has routinely been oppressed, degraded and made to feel less than a human being all in keeping with the heavy-handed tactics of a male-oriented existence. With nothing else to use as a weapon against such inhumane treatment, women have long withheld sex as a means by which to get their counterparts' attention; nowhere is this more evident than in such early works as "Lysistrata" and "The Wife of Bath." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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been oppressed, degraded and made to feel less than a human being all in keeping with the heavy-handed tactics of a male-oriented existence. With nothing else to use as
a weapon against such inhumane treatment, women have long withheld sex as a means by which to get their counterparts attention; nowhere is this more evident than in such early
works as Lysistrata and The Wife of Bath. Alisouns bravado is clearly apparent within the literary boundaries of Chaucers prologue. While she
at first expounds upon her spousal conquests, she concludes by way of demonstrating how each one of her five husbands was ultimately nothing more than a pawn in her intricately
woven game. It appears as though her marriages were looked upon as more a sport than a commitment of passion, given the manner by which she describes her husbands.
She explains with great enthusiasm -- and without apology - how she goes about the tricks of her trade, vigorously defending a lifestyle that can only be considered brazen
for the time period. "Christ never specified how many times a woman should marry. Virginity is fine but wives are not condemned; the Apostle said that my husband
would be my debtor, and I have power over his body. Three of my husbands were good and two bad. The first three were old and rich and
I picked them clean. One of my old husbands, emboldened with drink, would come home and preach against women; but I got the better of him. My fourth
husband was young and he had a mistress. I pretended to be unfaithful and made him burn in his own grease" (Chaucer).
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