TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dimple Godiwala
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Breaking the Bounds
T2  - British Feminist Dramatists Writing in the Mainstream since c. 1980
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096569
N2  - Breaking the Bounds focuses on second-wave feminism as a rupture in an unbroken episteme of Western patriarchy analyzed with regard to British dramatic discourse. The theoretical framework is a genealogy of patriarchy deploying and developing Foucault’s ideas on discourse to apply to a deconstruction of Western patriarchy. An analysis of feminist drama texts is used to support the argument that Western patriarchy consists of one unbroken episteme as the patriarchal impulse substrates the epistemological breaks indicated by Foucault. The theoretical text speaks of the twentieth-century feminist rupture from patriarchy, analyzing in detail the texts of five mainstream feminist dramatists who have successfully effected an intervention in the British grand récit of undeniably male dramatic discourse.
KW  - patriarchy, Foucault, rupture
LA  - English
ER  -