Working in territory cleared by American feminist literary critic Rackin, colleagues identify feminist elements in early modern English works. Among their topics are household writing or the
joys of carving, preparing food and producing gender on early modern stages, race and emerging heterosexuality in performances of Othello and Desdemona during the 17th and 18th centuries, the
place of women's homoerotic desire in Shakespeare's As You Like It, gender and the pleasures of revenge, and teaching feminist editorial practice. Distributed in the US by Associated University
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