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patriarchy to be unjust. What is perhaps most challenging about Chaucer's inclusion of a tale that
promotes female authority in his dream vision that begins with a summary of an overtly
masculine tale, is not only how it redefines a woman's rights in marriage but also how it
privileges female desire. Unlike defamatory tales that would be written a century later, which
would describe women as leaky vessels, Chaucer aligns feminine judgments on love as more
authentic than the more represented masculine conventions. By highlighting the possible tragic
limitations of medieval women in courtship, Chaucer reveals that social ideology is a construct
that needs to be constantly re-imagined.56
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Ward, Jessica D. Conjugal Rights in Flux in Medieval Poetry, thesis, May 2014; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500176/m1/61/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .