According to popular culture, specifically through the use of such magazines as Glamour and Cosmopolitan, the woman of the twentieth century can still be defined by her sexual identity, although perhaps in different terms than were used when Chaucer first wrote the Canterbury Tales. "Today's woman" (to coin the popular culture term) is one who is powerful, and equal in all ways to her sexual mate, "today's man." She works outside the home, pursuing an emotionally and financially profitable career, she is no longer a virgin by the time she takes a husband, and usually has several sexual partne....

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