Article: "We'll learn that of the men": female sexuality in Southerne's comedies. (seventeenth-century writer Thomas Southerne)

Encyclopedia entry: Thomas Southerne
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      411 words ...Thomas Southerne , 1660-1746, English dramatist, b. Ireland. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he moved to London where he pursued a ...

Article: Race, Women, and the Sentimental in Thomas ...
Criticism;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... probably the most well-known of the few representations of dark-skinned African women in early modern literature.(1) Thomas Southerne's 1696 dramatization of Behn's novella is, in its turn, probably best-known for changing the skin color of its ...

Article: The paradoxes of slavery in Thomas Southerne's ...
Comparative Drama;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Critics generally base their analyses of ambivalent representations of slavery in Oroonoko, Thomas Southernes popular 1695 play, on its hero. (1) By concentrating on Oroonoko, an African prince, many scholars argue that Southerne (1660-1746) objects, not to slavery, but to either the enslavement of

Article: Female Sexuality: Its Allurement and Repression in ...
The American Journal of Semiotics;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... addressing how the question of Chinese female sexuality is questioned and challenged by the ... The Cultural Mis/Construction of Female Sexuality Sexuality is never an easy topic for ... decorum and propriety dictate that female sexuality, this very trivial and obscure aspect ...

Article: "Making a Scene": some thoughts on female sexuality ...
The Mississippi Quarterly;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... not least in her portrayal of female sexuality in which performance - the ... embodies the ambiguities of female sexuality. In several recent feminist ... of Eudora Welty's work, female sexuality is presented in a rather essentialising ...

Article: UC-Davis history professor to discuss female ...
University Wire;  December 1, 2006 ;     453 words ... ... Materson. The lecture, titled "Female Sexuality in the U.S.," will focus on the ... centuries. Materson regularly teaches female sexuality progression in History 184, "History ... the speech will primarily focus on female sexuality, the topic of male sexuality plays ...

Article: Eroticism, mysticism, and liberation in Tahar Ben Jelloun's La ...
Michigan Academician;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... There is an "explicit theory" of female sexuality with its belief that men are aggressive ... contradictory "implicit theory" of female sexuality, as epitomized in Imam Ghazali ... unconsciousness" (32). This conception of female sexuality casts the woman as the hunter and ...