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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... social body . If a technique is politically useful , if it lends itself to economic profit it becomes colonized and maintained by global mecha- nisms and the entire state system ( hence , the third in the triad of impulses : the ...
... social body . If a technique is politically useful , if it lends itself to economic profit it becomes colonized and maintained by global mecha- nisms and the entire state system ( hence , the third in the triad of impulses : the ...
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... social analysts ignore the silent substratum which underlies political and social structures , a substratum which is awakened as the rules seem to have run amok with women's ' libera- tion ' . Owners is a piece which foreshadows the ...
... social analysts ignore the silent substratum which underlies political and social structures , a substratum which is awakened as the rules seem to have run amok with women's ' libera- tion ' . Owners is a piece which foreshadows the ...
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... social hierarchy within a pu- tative organic unity of interests . Because the subordination of woman to man and child to adult were deemed natural facts , other forms of social hier- archy could be depicted in familial terms to guarantee ...
... social hierarchy within a pu- tative organic unity of interests . Because the subordination of woman to man and child to adult were deemed natural facts , other forms of social hier- archy could be depicted in familial terms to guarantee ...
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