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CRITICS, Fatma Hafdhi - *'Despite the fact that Joan is depicted as a…

- - - - 'The Church associated women with sex, and all pleasure in sex was condemned, because it could only come from the devil.'
    - - Woolf emphasises the extent to which women have always been the poorer sex. This can be seen in the importance of social status in the scapegoating of witchery and in the emphasis that Shaw places on Joan's social status
    - - 'Most of the accused were women, disproportionately poor, widowed and past childbearing'
  - - - Simone vehemently criticises religion for how it represses women. 'Divine motherhood.' Men dictate religion much like they dictate most institutions.
  - - - Joan Busifeld - The female malady
      - Phyllis Chesler - Women and madness - The critical phallacy
        
        Thesis: What is labelled as mental illness in women is often a reaction to the revalued female role or a rejection of that role
- - - - Though he held issue with Shaw's portrayal of the titular character, he wrote that the play "seems to illustrate Mr. Shaw's mind more clearly than anything he has written before." Just over one hundred years later, on the evening of Wednesday, February 19th , I was thankful to Imperial College Drama Society for inviting me to similarly review their production. Though, admittedly, we are both a little less decorated and 'highbrow'.
  - - - Mention binary opposition between sainthood or witchery for women
        
        ‘It is very possible that Miller was aware of this relation between hysteria and the female life cycle mainly because most of the accused in the play fall under the category of menopausal women: Tituba, Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, etc’
        
        Emphasis on Abigail Williams' drinking of the blood