Women in Arms: Amazons in 17th Century English Drama
This paper investigates the portrayal of Amazons in a variety of seventeenth century English plays. Sword women combining male connoted aggression and female beauty functioned as a female dream of empowerment as well as a misogynist nightmare. Hence the image of such 'masculine' women was...
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| Language: | English |
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Athens Institute for Education and Research
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts |
| Online Access: | http://www.atiner.gr/journals/humanities/2014-1-2-5-Rubik.pdf |