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Title Performing gender violence : plays by contemporary American women dramatists / edited by Barbara Ozieblo, Noelia Hernando-Real
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 198 pages)
Contents Introduction / by Noelia Hernando-Real and Barbara Ozieblo -- Violence against Women: Forms and Responses/ by Marta Fernandez-Morales [and others] -- Violence against Women in U.S. Theater / by Noelia Hernando-Real and Barbara Ozieblo -- My Home, My Battleground: The Deconstruction of the American Family / by Noelia Hernando-Real -- The Role of Female Bonding on the Stage of Violence/ by Maria Dolores Narbona-Carrin -- A Stalker, a Serial Killer, and the Women Who Survived Them: Psychological Abuse as a Form of Gender Violence/ by Miriam Lopez-Rodriguez -- The New Breast Cancer (Im)patient: Female Revolt against Biomedical Violence in US Drama / by Marta Fernandez-Morales -- Survival Strategies in Recent Plays by African American Women Playwrights / by Inmaculada Pineda-Hernandez -- Documenting War: Theatrical Interventions by Emily Mann and Heather Raffo / by Ilka Saal -- The Victim and the Audience's Pleasure: an Exploration of Carson Kreitzer's Self Defense and Stefanie Zadravec's Honey Brown Eyes / by Barbara Ozieblo
Summary Violence against women in plays by women has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book encompasses the theatrical devices used to represent violence on the stage in an age of virtual, immediate reality as much as the problematics of gender violence in modern society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Women in literature.
Violence in literature.
Sex crimes in literature.
DRAMA -- American.
American drama
American drama -- Women authors
Sex crimes in literature
Violence in literature
Women in literature
Autorin
Drama
Frau Motiv
Gewalt Motiv
Häusliche Gewalt Motiv
Krieg Motiv
Psychologie Motiv
Sexualdelikt
Ungerechtigkeit
Théâtre américain -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique.
Théâtre américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Femmes -- Dans la littérature.
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Ozieblo, Bárbara
Hernando-Real, Noelia, 1977-
ISBN 9781137010568
1137010568
9780230339958
0230339956