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We often hear nowadays that feminism is a thing of the past and is no longer relevant. The limitations of this typically Western view become obvious once we turn our attention to the current situations of women in the rest of the world: in some countries they must risk their lives to demand even the basic human right to education.
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For the authorship of these Characters, see F. L. Lucas, The Complete Works of John Webster (1927) (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 4 vols., Vol.4, 6–10
David Gunby, Introduction to New Characters, The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie and MacDonald P. Jackson et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995–2007), 3 vols., Vol. 3, 440–51. All citations from Webster’s works in this book are taken from this edition.
For the concepts of marriage in early modern England, see Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570–1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977).
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Kusunoki, A. (2015). Introduction: Concepts of Womanhood in Early Modern England. In: Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137558930_1
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