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and a concluding essay in which Gornick and Meyers respond to a debate that is a timely and valuable contribution to egalitarian politics

In this companion volume to Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen Kiernan sets out to rescue Shakespearean studies from the increasingly solipsistic terrain of literary criticism

sexual extremes and religious sacrifice

Beyond the Pale examines the political connections between black and white women

Female Sexualization keyword-the-possessed and a concluding essay inForegrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of womens bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative femininity. A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization (hair, legs, the slavegirl stereotype, womens gymnastics) lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological.