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Critical Cross-Dressing
Donne's Poem
Donne's Verse Letters
Donne’s Verse Letters
Ecriture Feminine
Ecstatic Transport
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female
Female Midwives
feminine
Feminine Complaints
Feminine Voice
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Hic Mulier
Irigaray 1985b
Lawrence Lipking
Lover's Complaint
Lover’s Complaint
Mary Beton
mater
Midwifery Books
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Newly Born Woman
Nicholas Culpeper
Peter Chamberlen
Polla Argentaria
Sappho's Poetry
Sappho's Song
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Shakespeare's Sister
Shakespeare’s Sister
Shore's Wife
Shore’s Wife
Sir Theodore Mayern
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transvestite
Transvestite Ventriloquism
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415127936
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ventriloquized Voices is a fascinating examination of the appropriation of the feminine voice by male authors. In a historical and theoretical study of English texts of the early modern period, Elizabeth D. Harvey looks at the transvestism at work in texts which purport to be by women but which are in fact written by men. The crossing of gender in these ventriloquized works illuminates the discourses of patronage, medicine, madness and eroticism in English Renaissance society, revealing as it does the construction of sexuality, gender identity, and power. The author skillfully juxtaposes such canonical works as John Donne's Anniversaries and Spenser's Faerie Queene with pamphlets on transvestism, midwifery books, and treatises on gynaecology and hysteria. By interrogating the fashioning of gender within a broad range of Renaissance culture, Ventriloquized Voices investigates not only the relationship between men, women and language, but also crucial twentieth-century feminist debates such as essentialism and the female voice.
