"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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Page 26
... rules must be imposed to regulate step by step every sphere of a female's life ; otherwise , her by nature rebellious impulses will go rampant , bringing apoca- lyptic disasters : annihilation of order and hierarchy . Simultaneously ...
... rules must be imposed to regulate step by step every sphere of a female's life ; otherwise , her by nature rebellious impulses will go rampant , bringing apoca- lyptic disasters : annihilation of order and hierarchy . Simultaneously ...
Page 95
... rule him by putting " a word in his ear , " tempting , refusing , and manipulating . Troy - the world of gesture and adherence to the noble , but impractical rules - is doomed to failure . In this rewriting of the Trojan war ...
... rule him by putting " a word in his ear , " tempting , refusing , and manipulating . Troy - the world of gesture and adherence to the noble , but impractical rules - is doomed to failure . In this rewriting of the Trojan war ...
Page 122
... rules about appropriate behaviour " ( qtd . in Woodward 93 ) , women's bodies are constantly presented as disruptive and defying the rules of social decorum . Truewit's tirades discussed above put forward the borderless , idle body of a ...
... rules about appropriate behaviour " ( qtd . in Woodward 93 ) , women's bodies are constantly presented as disruptive and defying the rules of social decorum . Truewit's tirades discussed above put forward the borderless , idle body of a ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
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