Essays and scripts on how mothers are portrayed in the theater
Subtitle: a neglected frontier of feminist scholarship
By: edited by Anna Andes and Beth Osnes ; with a foreword by Kathryn Moller.
Contributors: Andes, Anna.; Osnes, Beth.
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773437791
Subjects: Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Mothers in literature; Motherhood in literature; Feminism and literature; Women and literature; Mothers -- Drama; Motherhood -- Drama
Genres: Drama
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 (Phedre) / 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.