Maureen Duffy [SEP] sex or gender
. The paradox lies in the difficulty of sustaining this as a permanent lifestyle, as the pressures of the outside world break through.
Writing career.
Writing career Plays.
In 1968, Maureen Duffy was one of five women novelists commissioned by Joan Plowright to write a play for the National Theatre with an all-female cast. Duffy's play "Rites" was selected for a second run at the Old Vic, then home of the National Theatre and has been frequently performed since. Set in ladies' public toilets
-Paul Sartre has also had an influence on her drama.
Duffy's affinity to London, present and past, and its cosmopolitan inhabitants often features in her writing, which celebrates diversity, regardless of class, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality or species. She advocates "an ethic of compassion" towards human and animal rights.
Early life and education.
Maureen Duffy had a tough childhood, on which she draws in "That's How It Was", her most autobiographical novel. Her working-