Staging the rage : the web of misogyny in modern drama /
Burkman, Katherine H.
Roof, Judith,1951-
Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The web of misogyny in Mamet's and Pinter's betrayal games -- Takes a licking and keeps on ticking : paranoia and misogyny in modern drama -- A nation's meta-language : misogyny in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The slave -- Postmodern "impurity," and Pinter's political turn -- Refusing to re-cover : Adrienne Kennedy's The Ohio State murders -- Suicide and self-annihilation : Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother and Karen Finley's The constant state of desire -- In enemy territory : women, power, misogyny and Hare's Plenty -- Rewriting the sex war in The Father, Miss Julie, and Creditors : Strindberg, authorship, and authority -- Embracing ambiguity : Shaw's women -- "Gawd, you'd think I was a piece of furniture" : O'Neill's Anna Christie -- The good person of Szechwan : discourse of a masquerade -- What passes for a woman in modern China -- The plays of David Hwang : the gaze of the Medusa -- Female strength and male impotence in Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf and Cat on a hot tin roof -- The queen is dead : style, Salomé, and the death of the woman.
Drama
Drama
Women in literature.
Misogyny in literature.
Sex role in literature.