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Ventriloquized Voices

Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts

Ventriloquized Voices
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Ventriloquized Voices is a fascinating examination of the appropriation of the feminine voice by male authors.
In a historical and theoretical study of English texts of the early modern period, Elizabeth D. Harvey looks at the transvestism at work in texts which purport to be by women but which are in fact written by men. The crossing of gender in these ventriloquized works illuminates the discourses of patronage, medicine, madness and eroticism in English Renaissance society, revealing as it does the construction of sexuality, gender identity, and power.
Routledge; June 1995
184 pages; ISBN 9780203222003
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