The purpose of this study is to examine Pam Gems' Play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (1977), which portrays the inner lives of four women, through a blend of three major feminist perspectives; namely liberal feminism, radical feminism, and socialist feminism. The play supports the "the personal is political" feminism as well, since the reason of the oppression of women is the political decisions of men that have great impact on the lives of each individual woman. The four title characters represent a spectrum of female experience and women narratives in a style of biographical theatre. The common foreground for them is their struggle to survive in a male-dominated society. The play depicts friendship as a bond intended for solving individual problems with men rather than collectives fight against patriarchal power. The unbalanced gap between the political and the personal life causes Fish's downfall when she realizes women have no complete liberation in the private life.
The purpose of this study is to discuss the space for a marginalized feminine identity in contemporary British feminist dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker's play. The play New Anatomies dramatizes the life of a historical woman called Isabelle Eberhardt, who disguised herself as an Arab man called Si Mahmoud living among Algerians. The focus of the play is the construction of a marginalised identity through dislocation of a woman from the European culture. Finding no space for her radical identity, she disguises herself as an Arab man to escape the constraints imposed on women by European ideals of femininity. Eberhardt disrupts the conventional gender codes by showing how gender is dramatized within the space of the salon. In contrast, Eberhardt is received as a man in male attire when travelling in Algeria trying to find out a space for her radical identity. She achieves a certain kind of freedom by her dislocation although this eventually leads to her death in desert.
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