"As You are Well Pronounced by All External Warrants": Women's Bodies and Women's Places in 17th-century Dutch and English DramaWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2006 - 175 pages |
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... activity : " She was distin- guished by what she did not do , or equally by what men did not do to her : she was unseen , unheard , untouched , unknown " ( 79 ) . Comp .: Jordan : " Her virtue was expressed principally in the absence or ...
... activity : " She was distin- guished by what she did not do , or equally by what men did not do to her : she was unseen , unheard , untouched , unknown " ( 79 ) . Comp .: Jordan : " Her virtue was expressed principally in the absence or ...
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... activity ) that gen- erates her readiness to return affection she gains by her complying nature . Woman is thus established as the passive opposition to man's activity . Such division is the condition sine qua non for the existence of ...
... activity ) that gen- erates her readiness to return affection she gains by her complying nature . Woman is thus established as the passive opposition to man's activity . Such division is the condition sine qua non for the existence of ...
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... activity ) or domestic imperfection as far as man is domestic perfection ( where the element compared is not the sphere of activity but the degree of excellence ) . Then features formulated in this manner are universalised as not ...
... activity ) or domestic imperfection as far as man is domestic perfection ( where the element compared is not the sphere of activity but the degree of excellence ) . Then features formulated in this manner are universalised as not ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
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