Examining the Use of Safety, Confrontation, and Ambivalence in Six Depictions of Reproductive Women on the American Stage, 1997-2007 [electronic resource] : Staging 'The Place' of Abortion

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagen, Lisa Hall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--Social aspects--United States.

Drama in education--United States.

Abortion.

Drama in education.

Local Subjects:

Abortion--Social aspects--United States.

Drama in education--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Examining the Use of Safety, Confrontation, and Ambivalence in Six Depictions of Reproductive Women on the American Stage, 1997-2007

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book fills a gap created when overtly politicized and polarized writing on abortion is removed. It seeks to explore the ways in which theater can serve as a particularly useful place to explore abortion.

Contents:

EXAMINING THE USE OF SAFETY,CONFRONTATION, AND AMBIVALENCE IN SIX DEPICTIONS OF REPRODUCTIVE WOMEN ON THE AMERICAN STAGE, 1997-2007: Staging 'The Place' of Abortion; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: When 'History Came Undone': Contextualizing American Theatre within the Contemporary Abortion Debate; Chapter 1: ""Gravida"" Versus the World: Control and Distance in The Credeaux Canvas and Mitzi 's Abortion; Chapter 2: Tense Liminality: Abortion Protest on Stage in The Water Children and Retrospect for Life

Chapter 3: Confrontation and 'The Place': The Act of Abortion On or Near the Stage in Fucking A and Jane Chapter 4: Staging the ""Third Position"" of Abortion and Ambivalence:The Power of Conflicting Truths; Interview Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

0-7734-1892-X

OCLC:

811507408