Breaking the Bounds: British Feminist Dramatists Writing in the Mainstream Since C. 1980Breaking the Bounds focuses on second-wave feminism as a rupture in an unbroken episteme of Western patriarchy analyzed with regard to British dramatic discourse. The theoretical framework is a genealogy of patriarchy deploying and developing Foucault's ideas on discourse to apply to a deconstruction of Western patriarchy. An analysis of feminist drama texts is used to support the argument that Western patriarchy consists of one unbroken episteme as the patriarchal impulse substrates the epistemological breaks indicated by Foucault. The theoretical text speaks of the twentieth-century feminist rupture from patriarchy, analyzing in detail the texts of five mainstream feminist dramatists who have successfully effected an intervention in the British grand récit of undeniably male dramatic discourse. |
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... patriarchal impulse , then , is also the name of that ' multiplicity of force relations ' which has been immanent in the sphere of western discourse ( s ) through the centuries ; it is that process which has strengthened and supported ...
... patriarchal impulse , then , is also the name of that ' multiplicity of force relations ' which has been immanent in the sphere of western discourse ( s ) through the centuries ; it is that process which has strengthened and supported ...
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... patriarchal discourse . " The rules for resistance or refusal are inscribed within discourse itself , and come from within it . Thus , the Kristevan resistance is to the patriarchal im- pulse within the discourse and not to the ...
... patriarchal discourse . " The rules for resistance or refusal are inscribed within discourse itself , and come from within it . Thus , the Kristevan resistance is to the patriarchal im- pulse within the discourse and not to the ...
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... patriarchal system which assumes that childcare and child - rearing are activities belonging solely to the mother . What happens to Marlene if the " truth " ( read , rules underlying the current systems ) change / s ? If , e.g. ...
... patriarchal system which assumes that childcare and child - rearing are activities belonging solely to the mother . What happens to Marlene if the " truth " ( read , rules underlying the current systems ) change / s ? If , e.g. ...
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