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Product Description: Violent and recurrent confrontations between disorderly women and patriarchal power are a major feature of the tragedies of Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton. In this study, Loomba interrelates racial and sexual differences to explore the construction of Renaissance authority and the politics of English studies, particularly Renaissance drama, in postcolonial education...read more

Five actresses from the Royal Shakespeare Company discuss the roles of Kate, Isabella, Lady Macbeth, Helena, Imogen, and Rosalind (view table of contents)

Product Description: Pat MacPherson shows how "Jane Eyre" is the site for a women's exploration of a morality of desire and power, alternative to the material and sexual double-standard of middle class men. This book should be of interest to general readers and students and teachers in women's studies, literature and sociology...read more

This volume offers 18 essays on women as writers or as objects of representation in the English Renaissance. By analyzing the ways in which women are treated both in the traditional canon and in writings hitherto excluded, the book establishes a broader context for the interpretation of these writings. At the same time, the essays treat texts as cultural documents that raise questions about English politics, religion, economics and power relations. Together, the pieces reveal much about the gender system operating in Renaissance England and the range of women's experience during this period. The book explores the interrelated subject of women's visibility/invisibility, empowerment/suppression and voice/silencing and also documents the efforts of individual women who engaged, not necessarily consciously, in the creation and recreation of a female cultural presence and discusses differences and similarities between male and female representations of women's experience. The book is arranged in five sections. Part 1 explores women's voices in three literary genres. Part 2 examines portrayals of female empowerment, suppression and resistance in Renaissance drama. In part 3, the authors look at the woman ruler, discussing both her authority and her limitations. Part 4 treats the repression of women in the private sphere and part 5 addresses the voices and silences of women in texts by male and female writers of the Sidney family. The final chapter is an annotated bibliography covering women writers from 1500 to 1640. It establishes the current parameters of scholarship in this area and suggests directions for future research and publishing.

Product Description: Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring...read more

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Product Description: From the dj: "According to Storch, Blake and Lawrence are strikingly similar in their ideals of individual and social liberation and in their creative temperament; they are also strikingly alike in their attitudes toward women." Interesting literary criticism and psychoanalysis of William Blake and D...read more

Product Description: This study traces the controversial figure of Cressida, characterized by sexual allure and treachery, from its Homeric beginnings in the minor characters of Chryseis and Briseis through its period of greatest popularity, the 6th-16th centuries, to its reappearance in modern form today...read more

Product Description: Book by Langbauer, Laurie

Product Description: This is a feminist study of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. The author argues that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he sees them as areas fraught with problems. The author considers the areas of role and stereotype, gender and genre, and power and subversion...read more

Product Description: Renegotiating Gender and Power

Product Description: Book by Ardis, Ann

Product Description: Most theological language which is available is based on men's stories-stories told about men's lives, and interpreted from a distinctly masculine perspective. In such stories women, by and large, are marginal characters. When they occasionally do figure in a more central role, the meaning of their actions is explained from a male viewpoint...read more