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"Any consideration of socialist feminism and theatre would be incomplete if it did not include [Caryl] Churchill" (12), Aston indicates from the outset. Hence, Aston argues: "it is at the limit of what equality-focused [liberal] feminism can achieve in terms of social change that connections might be made to the socially transformative ends of radical and/or socialist feminisms" (32). From Aston's socialist-feminist standpoint, which she explicitly acknowledges, Thatcherism cast "socialist and radical feminists [...] as the "ugly" sisters to Cinderella as the heroine of a liberal-feminist drama, or more specifically of the I neoliberal i drama that Thatcher was determined on scripting" (8). [Extracted from the article] |
