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I read this to familiarize myself with Kahns work. Shes an academic I might like to work with. This book was structured very well and gave me a good idea of how gender and psychoanalytic reading can function with Shakespeare. Kahn structures the book as follows:1. Self and Eros in Venus and Adonis2. The Shadow of the Male: Masculine Identity in the History Plays3. Coming of Age: Marriage and Manhood in Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew4. The Savage Yolk: Cuckoldry and Marriage5. The Milking Babe and the Bloody Man in Coriolanus and MacBeth6. The Providential Tempest and the Shakespearean FamilyEach of these chapters stands alone as an excellent essay, but they overlaps and are cohesive as well. This would really be a book worth owning for Shakespearean scholars, and I can see why Kahn is considered one of the primary feminists working in the field. Mans Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare by Coppelia Kahn
