| Description |
274 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Katherine H. Burkman and Judith Roof -- 1. The Web of Misogyny in Mamet's and Pinter's Betrayal Games / Katherine H. Burkman -- 2. Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking: Paranoia and Misogyny in Modern Drama / Judith Roof -- 3. A Nation's Meta-language: Misogyny in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The Slave / Beth McCoy -- 4. Postmodern "Impurity," and Pinter's Political Turn / Stephen Watt -- 5. Refusing to Re-cover: Adrienne Kennedy's The Ohio State Murders / Jeanne Colleran -- 6. Suicide and Self-Annihilation: Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother and Karen Finley's The Constant State of Desire / Timothy Wiles -- 7. In Enemy Territory: Women, Power, Misogyny and Hare's Plenty / Amanda Dine-Gamble and Judith Roof -- 8. Rewriting the Sex War in The Father, Miss Julie, and Creditors: Strindberg, Authorship, and Authority / Robert Gordon -- 9. Embracing Ambiguity: Shaw's Women / Anne Marie Drew |
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10. "Gawd, you'd think I was a piece of furniture": O'Neill's Anna Christie / Ann C. Hall -- 11. The Good Person of Szechwan: Discourse of a Masquerade / Elizabeth Wright -- 12. What Passes for a Woman in Modern China / Paula Jayne White -- 13. The Plays of David Hwang: The Gaze of the Medusa / Vera Jiji -- 14. Barren Ground: Female Strength and Male Impotence in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / John Kundert-Gibbs -- 15. The Queen is Dead: Style, Salome, and the Death of the Woman / Frank Smigiel |
| Summary |
This study is divided into four sections, whose general topics trace various manifestations of misogyny in nineteenthand twentieth-century drama. Recent attempts to dismantle and expose relations between gender and spectacle receive attention in a volume that suggests exciting possibilities for a revision of theater |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Misogyny in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| Author |
Burkman, Katherine H.
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Roof, Judith, 1951-
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| LC no. |
97048456 |
| ISBN |
0838637639 (alk. paper) |
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