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This book about love and addictive relationships begins with a fable about one woman's experience with obsession, and succeeding chapters also use fables to explore the various components of obsession. Throughout, Sullivan uses examples of famous love stories, real and fictional, to illustrate her examination, as she attempts to answer the question, "Why are people, women in particular, addicted to romantic, obsessive love?"
16) Caddy Compson
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The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame. It demonstrates how shame structures relationships and shapes women's identities. Examining works by women authors from around the world,...
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"From one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, actor, director, and master teacher Tina Packer offers an exploration--fierce, funny, fearless--of the women of Shakespeare's plays. A profound, and profoundly illuminating, book that gives us the playwright's changing understanding of the feminine and reveals some of his deepest insights. Packer, with expert grasp and perception, constructs a radically different understanding...
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