Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women

ISBN: 0801480914

Author: Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin

Condition: New

What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength.