Essays and scripts on how mothers are portrayed in the theatre

a neglected frontier of feminist scholarship

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Edwin Mellen Press
Language
English
Pages
330

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Table of Contents

Hispanic mothers on stage : women playwrights undermining masculinist values / Gisela Norat
Monstrous girls and their monstrous mothers / Erica Stevens-Abbitt
Italian mammas and suffering Madonnas : the strategic deployment of maternal stereotypes in the theatre of Franca Rame / Sydney Cheek O'Donnell
Motherhood displaced : Rachel Crothers' The three of us and A man's world / Anna Andes
The abject of my affection : the erotics of stepmotherhood in Sarah Kane's Phaedra's love and the Wooster Group's To you, the birdie (Phèdre) / Christine Woodworth
"She watches us watching her" : the theatre of maternity and the performance of maternal failure in O'Neill's Long day's journey into night / Lisa Hall
Not so sainted : mothers on the contemporary Irish stage / Helen Lojek
What kind of mother are you? Catholic mothers in contemporary American drama / Heather Beasley
Julie and Mama Rose : the musical theatre mother / Merlaine A. Angwall
The mother load : a one-woman theatrical performance / Beth Osnes.

Edition Notes

Collection consists of two parts: contributions to the discourses of performance scholarship, gender/feminist scholarship, and mother scholarship; and scripts that portray the image of mother and mother perspectives on the stage.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Lewiston, N.Y

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Dewey Decimal Class
809.2/935252
Library of Congress
PN1650.M68 E87 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
v, 330 p. ;
Number of pages
330

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24490293M
ISBN 10
0773437797
ISBN 13
9780773437791
LCCN
2009050024
OCLC/WorldCat
494272551

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