Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... category of analysis ( albeit one that can be properly understood only in ... woman through an array of permutations , discontinuities and contradictions ... woman nor gender nor tragedy can be properly understood by examining the text in ...
... category of analysis ( albeit one that can be properly understood only in ... woman through an array of permutations , discontinuities and contradictions ... woman nor gender nor tragedy can be properly understood by examining the text in ...
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... woman likewise constructs woman as excess , but does so by describing her as exception . All good , chaste women are ... category of woman , but simultaneously , the construction / * erection ' of phallic power itself.25 The problem with ...
... woman likewise constructs woman as excess , but does so by describing her as exception . All good , chaste women are ... category of woman , but simultaneously , the construction / * erection ' of phallic power itself.25 The problem with ...
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... gender categories . This boundary not only produces the category of woman , it is also the content of differentiation itself . Man and woman are divided by the sword in a symbolic system which utilises the phallus as the marker of gender ...
... gender categories . This boundary not only produces the category of woman , it is also the content of differentiation itself . Man and woman are divided by the sword in a symbolic system which utilises the phallus as the marker of gender ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
Copyright | |
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