Carolyn D. Williams

Early Modern Hermaphrodites: Sex and Other Stories

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Sex and Other Stories On Gods and Monsters: Defining the Early Modern Hermaphrodite Telling the Truth of Sex: The Hermaphrodite in Biology and Law Both and Neither: Rewriting Ovids Hermaphrodite Mingle-Mangle: Masculine Women and Feminine Men Every Heteroclite Part: The Monstrous Hermaphrodite and the English Revolution Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and the Hermaphrodite Epilogue: Re/covering the Early Modern Hermaphrodite Endnotes Bibliography Index

Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

This study enlists both postmodern theory and early modern history in a cultural reading of the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality in Dido, Queene of Carthage, Tamburlaine I and II, Edward II, and Doctor Faustus. Some of the aspects of the plays explored in this study include the symmetry or assymetry of gender; the representation of gender as natural and universal or discursively constructed; the reinforcement or subversion of traditional gender traits, gender principles, and gender structures; and the relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Tudor and Stuart Women Writers@@@Interpreting Ladies: Women, Wit, and Morality in the Restoration Comedy of Manners

This work provides an extended exploration of the roles and functions of female characters and elaborates a specific theory of the relationship of women to Restoration notions of wit and morality. The author draws upon the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Wycherley.

Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature

Introduction: the imperfect enjoyment 1. Hobbes and the libertines 2. The tyranny of desire: sex and politics in Rochester 3. Absent from thee 4. Playing trick for trick: domestic rebellion and the female libertine 5. My masculine part: Aphra Behn and the androgynous imagination Index.