Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... relation to the dominant one , especially since neither gender nor race nor class is a mutually exclusive category . 13 In Renaissance tragedy , gender , because it is organised in important conjunction with race and class issues ...
... relation to the dominant one , especially since neither gender nor race nor class is a mutually exclusive category . 13 In Renaissance tragedy , gender , because it is organised in important conjunction with race and class issues ...
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... relation to women . For example , there is a section on ' the great perills of mothers in their childings ' which recounts ' the great paine and torment both the poore mother suffer and beare'.22 Woman endured her punishment as a ...
... relation to women . For example , there is a section on ' the great perills of mothers in their childings ' which recounts ' the great paine and torment both the poore mother suffer and beare'.22 Woman endured her punishment as a ...
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... relation of an abstract transcendence to femininity is assumed and then defined in relation to men as an affair . Actual and even fictive women then disappear from view while the positive quality they symbolize is attributed exclusively ...
... relation of an abstract transcendence to femininity is assumed and then defined in relation to men as an affair . Actual and even fictive women then disappear from view while the positive quality they symbolize is attributed exclusively ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
Copyright | |
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