TY - BOOK ID - 77891941 TI - How Timberlake Wertenbaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays : Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes PY - 2012 SN - 0773421866 9780773421868 9780773426269 0773426264 PB - Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Wertenbaker, Timberlake -- Criticism and interpretation. KW - Gender identity in literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - Wertenbaker, Timberlake KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891941 AB - Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberlake plays from this new perspective of gender, focusing on how gender impacts history, showing the unstable power relations that exist between the sexes. ER -