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Women As Victims In Tennessee Williams' First Three Major Plays, Ruth Foley
Women As Victims In Tennessee Williams' First Three Major Plays, Ruth Foley
Masters Theses
Although Tennessee Williams does not openly champion the rights of women in his plays, he presents strong cases against their social alienation in a harsh and brutal world governed by men. Williams' emotional leanings, sensitivity, and intuition enable him to see life through women's eyes. In The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Summer and Smoke, Williams astutely sounds the battle cry for women to fight against male oppression. He shows how Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Stella Kowalski, and Alma Winemiller are held hostage to the rules governing patriarchal society and become unhappy marginalized victims. The self-contained …
The Female Quixote As Promoter Of Social Literacy, Amy Hodges
The Female Quixote As Promoter Of Social Literacy, Amy Hodges
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s conception of England as an orderly, unromantic site of commercial trade. Arabella’s romances prompt her to expect certain power structures from English society; she invites others to see her body as a spectacle and expects that her actions will solidify her status as a powerful woman. Yet Lennox reveals that English society sees Arabella’s body not as powerful, but as an object upon which they may construct their own potential site for the exchange of knowledge, an objectification that neither Arabella nor Lennox are prepared …
Madam Britannia: Women, Church, And Nation, 1712-1812, By Emma Major, Kathryn Stasio
Madam Britannia: Women, Church, And Nation, 1712-1812, By Emma Major, Kathryn Stasio
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Cultivating Resources In Hard Times, Catherine Ingrassia
Cultivating Resources In Hard Times, Catherine Ingrassia
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Supporting Women Scholars: How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Mona Narain
Supporting Women Scholars: How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Mona Narain
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Love Kills: Exploring Young Women In Shakespeare, Malcolm X. Evans
Love Kills: Exploring Young Women In Shakespeare, Malcolm X. Evans
Senior Theses and Projects
Taking a look at how William Shakespeare writes young women (particularly in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet), Evans puts forth the idea that "love kills." There are no young and strong characters that are powerful, entirely as women, in the works of Shakespeare. To further put forth the idea Evans comments on a production of his own design, by the same name, which brings together the Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.