"I wou'd be a Man-Woman": Roxana's Amazonian Threat to the Ideology of Marriage

Maurer explores the ideology of marriage in Daniel Defoe's final novel, Roxana. Attempts of character Roxana to style herself a man-woman, to enjoy Amazonian independence from male economic and sexual control, necessarily situate her outside the bounds of prescribed femininity, into a category...

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