"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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 50
Page 32
... definition , approx- imated only by unending series of negations , which - paradoxically enough- instead of pinning her ... defined femininity by setting women in opposi- tion to men . Man occupied the centre , the point of reference to ...
... definition , approx- imated only by unending series of negations , which - paradoxically enough- instead of pinning her ... defined femininity by setting women in opposi- tion to men . Man occupied the centre , the point of reference to ...
Page 33
... defined and constructed so that marriage was found their only outlet . Various writers on women ( both pamphleteers attacking or defending women as well as moralists ) consider all women in relation to their marital status29 and discuss ...
... defined and constructed so that marriage was found their only outlet . Various writers on women ( both pamphleteers attacking or defending women as well as moralists ) consider all women in relation to their marital status29 and discuss ...
Page 56
... defined as a deviation from the fixed standard . The method works by imposing a system of hierarchical binary oppositions in which one element is defined as a norm and identified with man . The category of " woman " in its turn is ...
... defined as a deviation from the fixed standard . The method works by imposing a system of hierarchical binary oppositions in which one element is defined as a norm and identified with man . The category of " woman " in its turn is ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adelaart analyses Arathusa Aughterson Bartholomew Fair becomes behaviour Ben Jonson bodily Bredero's Cats chastity city comedies concept constitutes Cressida cultural Daifilo defined desire discourse domestic drama dramatised Dutch early modern emphasises English Epicoene example Faithful Shepherdess female body female characters female figures feminine Feminism gender ghij Granida Griane haar Hageroos Hageroos's Hermione Hermione's household husband Huwelijk ical ideal idealisation identity internalisation Isabella Jacob Cats John Milton Keeble Klucht Leeuwendalers Leontes London Low Countries male man's manifest marriage masculine maternal Measure for Measure mijn Moortje moral motif Moy-aal nature Neerlandica Wratislaviensia nevertheless niet norm P.C. Hooft's paradoxes pastoral patriarchal Philaster play political position potentially relationships Renaissance rhetorical role scene setting sexual Shakespeare Silent Woman social Spaanschen Brabander space spatial sphere stage status structures texts tion tragicomedy transgression Trijn virginity virtue Vondel vrouw Warenar wife Winter's Tale woman woman's body women writers zijn