In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 185
... 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 ) contention ...
... 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 ) contention ...
Page 186
... male chivalry , and thus Joan becomes for Shakespeare 9 doubly a whore and a witch - utterly alien . Lesser characters in the drama who display ' male ' militar- istic and Amazonian qualities are similarly trivialized . In Barnes's The ...
... male chivalry , and thus Joan becomes for Shakespeare 9 doubly a whore and a witch - utterly alien . Lesser characters in the drama who display ' male ' militar- istic and Amazonian qualities are similarly trivialized . In Barnes's The ...
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... male sphere of action . Even more definitively male than the role of revenger is the role of politician , and women who assume this role are even further out of order . And if a male politician is " one who would circumvent „ 1 his ...
... male sphere of action . Even more definitively male than the role of revenger is the role of politician , and women who assume this role are even further out of order . And if a male politician is " one who would circumvent „ 1 his ...
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