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Race, sex, and gender in contemporary women's theatre : the construction of "woman" / Mary F. Brewer ; foreword by Alan Sinfield.
LIBRA PR739.F45 B74 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brewer, Mary F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--Women authors.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- United States.
- American drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- American drama--Women authors.
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Lesbians in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brighton, Great Britain ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 1999.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Women and Representation 1
- Contemporary Women's Theatre: The Plays 3
- Feminist Constructions of Difference 5
- Defining Race 6
- 1 Representations of Motherhood 11
- And Who Would Call Her Mother?: Carers Without Control 11
- Courts of Flaw: Representations of Lesbians and the Rights of Lesbian Mothers 12
- Fortunes at Low Tide 15
- The Politics of Lesbian Motherhood: Strategies for Resistance 22
- Conformity or Rebellion: Lesbian Families at Risk 28
- 2 OtherMothers 34
- The Sex-gender/Race-gender System 34
- Survival as Resistance: Black Women and the Family 36
- Black Women and the Race: "Lifting as We Climb" 41
- Re-constructing the "Chitlin-Circuit": Race, Representation, and OtherMothers 49
- 3 Friedan's Daughters: Representations of "Woman" at Work 57
- The Return of the Happy Housewife: Feminists Re-forming "Woman" 57
- Resurrecting the Cult of Domesticity 64
- Who's On Top? White Women, Work, and the Family 71
- Power Feminism: The Genderquake 81
- Working Across the Racial Divide: Imitating Anita 83
- 4 "Woman" as Object 92
- Universal "Woman": The Trojan Horse of Feminism 92
- Colorizing Joan of Arc: Racialized Femininity and the Politics of Appearance 94
- The Pornography of Representation: Sex, Gender, Race, and Rape 104
- Erotophobes 109
- Black Women and the Sexual Politics of Rape 113
- 5 "Woman" as Subject: Negotiating Multiple Identities 119
- A Movement Out of Step With Itself 119
- Women on the Borders of "Womanhood": Negotiating Race, Sex, and Gender(s) 123
- Difference: What Makes a House a Home 129
- Learning to Dance as Sisters 135
- 6 Infiltrating "Woman": Butch/Fem Lesbian Subjectivity 137
- Woman as Discursive Subject 137
- The Butch/Fem Debate 138
- Signs and Seduction 141
- Butch, Fem, and the Mask of Womanliness 147
- Performing Gender(s) 151
- Conclusion: Toward a Progressive Feminist Politics - A House of Difference 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1902210182
- 1902210190
- OCLC:
- 40473735
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