SOURCE: "Unbodied Figures of Desire," in Theatre Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, March, 1986, pp. 34-52.
In the following excerpt, Cook examines the problematic relationship between desire and the representation of women as objects, which she claims "requires that the woman either betray her lover, revealing her inadequacy in her corruption, or die. "
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