A Review of The Clerk's Tale and Traffic in Women

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A 10 page exploration of the 1975 contentions of anthropologist Gayle Rubin. Her article, The Traffic in Women Notes on the Political Economy of Sex reveals the historic tendency to view women from primitive cultures as objects of exchange. A comparison of this view to that found in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale helps further explore this concept. 2 sources.