In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Amazon and the witch embody , in different ways , the Renaissance man's idea of a woman who unnaturally attacks the accepted notion of womanhood itself by trying to be ' like a man ' , or even better , stronger , braver than men , and ...
... Amazon and the witch embody , in different ways , the Renaissance man's idea of a woman who unnaturally attacks the accepted notion of womanhood itself by trying to be ' like a man ' , or even better , stronger , braver than men , and ...
Page 185
... Amazon and reinstates male authority - it liberates the women and .6 makes them " grateful . " " Undecent and manly apparel " 7 Amazons subvert order by donning men's clothes so they can enter the male sphere of public ( often armed ) ...
... Amazon and reinstates male authority - it liberates the women and .6 makes them " grateful . " " Undecent and manly apparel " 7 Amazons subvert order by donning men's clothes so they can enter the male sphere of public ( often armed ) ...
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... Amazon , Mary Ambree , in the sixteenth - century " Ballad of Mary Ambree , Ile nere sell my honour for purple nor ... Amazon in breeches is 187.
... Amazon , Mary Ambree , in the sixteenth - century " Ballad of Mary Ambree , Ile nere sell my honour for purple nor ... Amazon in breeches is 187.
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