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Preface

Introduction: Woman's Place at the Turn of the Century: Emancipation or Hysterization?

Part I Freud's Double?

1. Female Sexuality and Schnitzler's "La Ronde"

Part II  Demythologizing the Femme Fatale, or The Daughter's Education

2. The (Wo)Man in the Moon: Wilde's "Salomé"

3. Woman as Spectacle and Commodity: Wedekind's Lulu Plays

Part III  The Law of the Father

4. "I've Lost Him Surely": Synge's "Playboy of the Western World"

5. The Dynamics of Sex and Suffering: Hauptmann's "Rose Bernd"

Part IV. Mothers in Spite of Themselves

6. Maternity and Hysterica: Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler"

7. Humanism and Patriarchy: Hofmannsthal's "Woman without a Shadow

Part V  Motherhood, Power, and Powerlessness

8. The New Woman as Madonna: Shaw's "Candida"

9. The Devil in the House? Strindberg's "The Father"