TY - JOUR TI - Theater at the service of the women's cause. Retour à ma femme by Maria Deraismes AU - Wierzbowska, Ewa Małgorzata TI - Theater at the service of the women's cause. Retour à ma femme by Maria Deraismes AB - Maria Deraismes uses her playwrighting skills to demonstrate the absurdity of the law and the prejudices that limit women. She demonstrates in her plays the rigidness and, at the same time, the absurdity of the patriarchal wall against which the needs, ambitions and dreams of women crash. In the play Retour à ma femme, Deraismes presents various forms of sexist oppression, reveals their inner workings, and encourages in-depth reflection on the patriarchal order that produces them. Undoubtedly, her primary concern is the inferior position of women, but it is evident that she also aims to improve society for both sexes. Deraismes creates female characters that viewers and readers can identify with and from whom they can draw the strength to change the world, as well as evolve themselves. VL - 2024 IS - Numéro 39 PY - 2024 SN - 2300-4681 C1 - 2353-8953 SP - 77 EP - 102 DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.24.012.20187 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/le-theatre-au-service-de-la-cause-feminine-retour-a-ma-femme-de-maria-deraismes KW - Deraismes KW - Théâtre chez soi KW - prejudices KW - gender oppression KW - hypocrisy