"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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... manifest nowhere else but in the act of conception to which she is predestined : she is necessary for procreation but plays an inferior role in it . She is literally a weaker vessel and serves as a receptacle , an empty space to be ...
... manifest nowhere else but in the act of conception to which she is predestined : she is necessary for procreation but plays an inferior role in it . She is literally a weaker vessel and serves as a receptacle , an empty space to be ...
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... manifest in reactions to accomplished women . Anna Maria van Schurman , a scientist , philosopher , and polyglot , provides a symptomatic example here . Laudatory verses written by her male contemporaries and admirers singled Van ...
... manifest in reactions to accomplished women . Anna Maria van Schurman , a scientist , philosopher , and polyglot , provides a symptomatic example here . Laudatory verses written by her male contemporaries and admirers singled Van ...
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... manifest woman ! " ( III , ii , 38 ) . The phrase abounds in associations which are developed in Morose's sub- sequent complaints . First of all , a " manifest woman " is the one whose body is " manifest " -exposed to public view and ...
... manifest woman ! " ( III , ii , 38 ) . The phrase abounds in associations which are developed in Morose's sub- sequent complaints . First of all , a " manifest woman " is the one whose body is " manifest " -exposed to public view and ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
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