Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women

by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength.

Genres: Classics, Literary Criticism

246 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1993

About the author

Nancy S. Rabinowitz is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College.