How Timberlake Wertenbaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays :: Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes.

Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberl...

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Main Author: Shih, Yi-chin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberlake plays from this new perspective of gender, focusing on how gender impacts history, showing the unstable power relations that exist between the sexes.
Physical Description:1 online resource (317 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773421868
0773421866

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