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bz60cv46w2b	Emily McLemore	Desiring Women: Pleasure and Power in Late Medieval English Literature	2022		.txt	text/plain	339	9	27	In Chapter Four, I focus on Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath to elucidate how Alisoun articulates a theory about women's desire that links the absence of sovereignty with sexual violence and discuss how this connection then carries over into her tale, where she fantasizes about female power and the reformation of male desire. Because discourse pertaining to medieval women's sexuality has traditionally been directed by virginity and violence, there remains a substantial gap in medievalist scholarship where women's desire and pleasure are concerned.	cache/bz60cv46w2b.txt	txt/bz60cv46w2b.txt