Performing Gender Violence [electronic resource] : Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists /
Ozieblo, B.editor.
Hernando-Real, N.editor.
Violence against women in plays bywomen 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.
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Introduction / by Noelia Hernando-Real and Barbara Ozieblo -- Violence against Women: Forms and Responses/ by Marta Fernandez-Morales ... [et al.] -- 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.
Violence against women in plays bywomen 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.
Theater.
Sociology.
Performing arts.
Arts.
Fine arts.
America-Literatures.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Gender Studies.
Performing Arts.
Arts.
Fine Arts.
North American Literature.