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Shaw and feminisms : on stage and off / edited by D. A. Hadfield and Jean Reynolds ; Foreword by Rodelle Weintraub.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Florida Bernard Shaw series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shaw, Bernard.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Women in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 234 pages ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]
- Summary:
- A volume that gathers critical perspectives on Shaw's feminism and the contradictions therein.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813042435
- 0813042437
- OCLC:
- 777602064
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