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Description:Guillén de Castro’s The Force of Habit (La fuerza de la costumbre, c. 1610) is singularamong comedias in that it takes the popular device of cross-dressed characters a step further,daring to ask whether gender is something that can be learned and unlearned, or if it is a fact ofnature. The protagonists, a brother and sister separated at birth and raised apart, become thecenter of a discussion about nature versus nurture: Félix, brought up by his mother to speaksoftly, fear thunder and stitch with the women of the house, and Hipólita, raised with her fatherin a war zone to wield a sword like a soldier, horrify their parents and amuse onlookers with theircomplete reversal of feminine and masculine attributes. Castro thus uses the siblings to explore essentialquestions about the nature of identity and the limitations of a system in which the correctperformance of gender is key to being accepted by family and friends alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Force of Habit. To get started finding Force of Habit, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Guillén de Castro’s The Force of Habit (La fuerza de la costumbre, c. 1610) is singularamong comedias in that it takes the popular device of cross-dressed characters a step further,daring to ask whether gender is something that can be learned and unlearned, or if it is a fact ofnature. The protagonists, a brother and sister separated at birth and raised apart, become thecenter of a discussion about nature versus nurture: Félix, brought up by his mother to speaksoftly, fear thunder and stitch with the women of the house, and Hipólita, raised with her fatherin a war zone to wield a sword like a soldier, horrify their parents and amuse onlookers with theircomplete reversal of feminine and masculine attributes. Castro thus uses the siblings to explore essentialquestions about the nature of identity and the limitations of a system in which the correctperformance of gender is key to being accepted by family and friends alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Force of Habit. To get started finding Force of Habit, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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