Sex, gender, and sexualities in Edward Albee's plays / edited by John M. Clum, Cormac O'Brien.

• TeilnehmendeR: Clum, John M.; O'Brien, Cormac.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Editors’ Introduction /; Dismembering/Remembering: Dramatizing the Family in The American Dream /; The Gay Geography of New York City in Albee’s The Zoo Story /; Revisiting the Zoo: Time and Gender in Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo /; “The Aims of Spirit”: Performing Marriage in Albee’s Plays /; Collateral Damage: Raising and Destroying [Gay?] Sons in Albee’s Plays /; A Body of One’s Own: Martha’s Performative Physicality in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? /; The Uncrossable Line: Reading Martha as Transgender in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? /; The Tragic (Male) Hero in the Wake of the New Millennium: Upturning Gender and Sexuality in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? /; “Do you want it?” The Commodification of Sexuality in the Late Plays of Edward Albee /; Malcolm, Sexual Politics, Edward Albee’s Adaptations /; “A wet run, so to speak”: Sex and Sexuality in Edward Albee’s Lolita /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004362711
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by John M. Clum, Cormac O'Brien.

Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in the Plays of Edward Albee contains a general introduction and eleven essays by American and European Albee scholars on Albee’s depictions of gender relations, sexual relations, monogamy, child-rearing, and homosexuality. The volume includes close readings of individual plays and more general theoretical and historical discussions. Contributors: Henry Albright, Mary Ann Barfield, Araceli Gonzalez Crespan, Andrew Darr, John M. Clum, Paul Grant, Emeline Jouve, T. Ross Leasure, David Marcia, Cormac O’Brien, Donald Pease, Valentine Vasak