Essays and scripts on how mothers are portrayed in the theatre
Subtitle: a neglected frontier of feminist scholarship
By: edited by Beth Osnes and Anna Andes ; with a foreword by Kathryn Moller
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780773437791
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.
Table of contents: title: Hispanic mothers on stage : women playwrights undermining masculinist values / Gisela Norat; title: Monstrous girls and their monstrous mothers / Erica Stevens-Abbitt; title: Italian mammas and suffering Madonnas : the strategic deployment of maternal stereotypes in the theatre of Franca Rame / Sydney Cheek O'Donnell; title: Motherhood displaced : Rachel Crothers' The three of us and A man's world / Anna Andes; title: 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; title: "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; title: Not so sainted : mothers on the contemporary Irish stage / Helen Lojek; title: What kind of mother are you? Catholic mothers in contemporary American drama / Heather Beasley; title: Julie and Mama Rose : the musical theatre mother / Merlaine A. Angwall; title: The mother load : a one-woman theatrical performance / Beth Osnes.