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Bodies and their spaces : system, crisis and transformation in early modern theatre /
Bodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre explores the emergence of the distinctively modern "gender system" at the close of the early modern period. The book investigates shifts in the gendered spaces assigned to men and women in the "public&q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 156. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : staging gendered space
- Ch. 1. Divide and rule : the early modern gender system and private space
- Ch. 2. The difference that makes a difference : emergent gender systems
- Ch. 3. The observer observed : differentiation and the theatrical system
- Ch. 4. Posing manliness : work and space as paradigms of early modern masculinity
- Ch. 5. The aporias of masculinity : systemic interpenetration and systemic instability
- Ch. 6. Author of himself : masculinity, civility and the closure of the body
- Ch. 7. Leaky vessels : femininity, the humoral economy and systemic boundaries
- Ch. 8. Women's worlds : women in the public sphere : space, community, language
- Ch. 9. Redrawing the boundaries : emergent gender spaces on the stage
- Conclusion : the alteration in apparel : cross-dressing and the emergent gender system.