Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women

What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich an...

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Main Author: Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Summary:What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781501737565
DOI:10.7591/9781501737565

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