"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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... writers ' apparent good - will and leniency towards ever susceptible women , despite all their avowals of feminine virtues , merits and charms , their works are generated by and operate upon sinister assumptions about the nature of the ...
... writers ' apparent good - will and leniency towards ever susceptible women , despite all their avowals of feminine virtues , merits and charms , their works are generated by and operate upon sinister assumptions about the nature of the ...
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... writers never ques- tion the fundamental premise of the patriarchal discourse , which constructs woman as naturally ... writer when in a little aside to his male readers he rejoices in the frailty of females as the only warrant of ...
... writers never ques- tion the fundamental premise of the patriarchal discourse , which constructs woman as naturally ... writer when in a little aside to his male readers he rejoices in the frailty of females as the only warrant of ...
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... writers so different as for example Erasmus and Thomas Overbury ) deployed in the texts on women , i.e. a comparison of a wife to a skilful tamer of wild ani- mals who makes beasts obedient not by overt violence but by apparent ...
... writers so different as for example Erasmus and Thomas Overbury ) deployed in the texts on women , i.e. a comparison of a wife to a skilful tamer of wild ani- mals who makes beasts obedient not by overt violence but by apparent ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
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