Shaw and feminisms : on stage and off / / edited by D. A. Hadfield and Jean Reynolds ; Foreword by Rodelle Weintraub.
A volume that gathers critical perspectives on Shaw's feminism and the contradictions therein.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Florida Bernard Shaw series
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| Physical Description: | xii, 234 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The women in Shaw's plays:
- 1. Shaw's athletic-minded women / Tracy J. R. Collins
- 2. Shaw and cruelty / Lawrence Switzky
- 3. Shutting out mother: Vivie Warren as the new woman / Ann Wilson
- 4. The politics of Shaw's Irish women in John Bull's other island / Brad Kent
- Part II. Shaw's relationships with women
- 5. Bernard Shaw and the archbishop's daughter / Leonard W. Conolly
- 6. Writing women: Shaw and feminism behind the scenes / A. Hadfield
- 7. Feminist politics and the two Irish "Georges": Egerton versus Shaw / Margaret D. Stetz
- 8. The passionate anarchist and her idea man / Virginia Costello
- Part III. Shavian feminism in the larger world
- 9. Mrs Warren's profession and the development of transnational Chinese feminism / Kay Li
- 10. Shaw's women in the world / John M. McInerney
- 11. The energy behind the anomaly: in conversation with Jackie Maxwell
- Interview and editing by D. A. Hadfield.