Madame Butterfly's Cocoon; After a Century of Female Progress, Her Plight Has Only Worsened

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 11, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

"MADAME BUTTERFLY" has been with us, in one form or another, for about a century. She began as a magazine short story and is now ending a run at the Kennedy Center as "Miss Saigon," her most recent incarnation. The story is always essentially the same: An American serviceman, on duty in Asia, marries an Asian woman, impregnates and abandons her. The final question is what will happen to the wife and child. The answer is different in each retelling.

When "Butterfly" first appeared, women could not vote in most parts of the world; in many places they could not own property; in some, they ...

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