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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"protofeminist"”.
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
… the marriage topos enables the utterance of a protofeminist discourse. While the marriage topos initially allows us to visualise these women as daughters, sisters, mothers and wives, it gradually unveils women not only as the apologists of true love, but also as androgynous heroines in the …
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Piety and Puritanism in the Plays of the Poetess-Punk Aphra Behn
… and possibly fictionalized, biography and her protofeminist themes. Because of these—her biography and her protofeminism—critics have tended to divorce her work from the historical religious context in which it was written. Indeed, Puritanical religious views do seem incongruent with Behn's …
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Noble virtues and rich chaines : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
… primarily discussed by literary scholars as a protofeminist text, one that celebrates and defends female community. While such readings have illuminated Lanyer's radical claims of gender equality, these interpretations tend to idealize Lanyer's utopian community, thereby effacing the historical …
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The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir
… tends to identify the femme fatale as a protofeminist, a productive transgressor of social norms whose worth has only been posteriorly discovered. In opposition to this reading, I propose that the femme’s transgressive, exploitive, and consumerist character has been designed by a media …
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The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
… established in rural Tennessee a utopian and protofeminist community that promoted interracial sexual unions and women’s reproductive rights and forbade religion (as irrational and hypocritical) and marriage (as entrapping and enfeebling to women). She charged the Protestant clergy with …
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The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s
… up to it. While the novel is often read as a protofeminist novel in which Marian is punished with an anorexia forced upon her by narcissistic men and patriarchy in general and then “fights back” by the cannibalization of the cake shaped like a woman, I read the novel as a critique of not only …