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| Article Name : | | | POWERLESS FEMALE FIGURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA | | Author Name : | | | Mehvish Syed | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-5188 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Before the 1960s and 1970s period of the American Feminist movement, women had no separate identity from that of their husbands, deprived as they were of any legal or political rights. In the American capitalist, patriarchal system of the early twentieth century, marriage was the only way for women to secure financial stability for the future. The early twentieth century patriarchal ideas confined women to the domestic sphere. Hence the playwrights of this period portray women as passive, dependent and weak. Women are shown as committed to the service of the family in the traditional feminine nursing role. | | Keywords : | | |
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