Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women

Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women
ISBN-10
0801480914
ISBN-13
9780801480911
Category
Social Science
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

Description

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.

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