"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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... virginity in the “ tech- nical " sense of the word , it came to comprise a more inclusive set of characteristics associated with sexuality , first of all the virginal condition of body , soul , and mind ( unmarried women ) and conju ...
... virginity in the “ tech- nical " sense of the word , it came to comprise a more inclusive set of characteristics associated with sexuality , first of all the virginal condition of body , soul , and mind ( unmarried women ) and conju ...
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... virginity is thus immediately transformed into a sexual temptation , which potentially destroys herself and leads men to collapse ; and Angelo , half woeful- ly , wonders : " never could the strumpet , / With all her double vigour , art ...
... virginity is thus immediately transformed into a sexual temptation , which potentially destroys herself and leads men to collapse ; and Angelo , half woeful- ly , wonders : " never could the strumpet , / With all her double vigour , art ...
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... virginity is not a preparatory stage for marriage and a gift bestowed by the father on the husband to ensure the transfer of power and prop- erty , but a self - contained , self - authorised mode of female self - definition in rela ...
... virginity is not a preparatory stage for marriage and a gift bestowed by the father on the husband to ensure the transfer of power and prop- erty , but a self - contained , self - authorised mode of female self - definition in rela ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
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