Violent Women in Contemporary Theatres : Staging Resistance /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Taylor Porter, Nancy (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2017.
• Θέματα: Βία στο θέατρο.; Γυναίκες στο θέατρο; Γυναίκες > Βία > Λαϊκή κουλτούρα.; Μοντέρνο θέατρο; Πολιτισμός και φύλο.; Γυναικείες σπουδές

This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how plays thoughtfully depict this...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgments
• Figures
• 1. Violent Women in Contemporary and Artistic Theatres
• 2. The Sex and Gender of Violence.
• 3. From Alpha to Omega Women: Ancient Greek Origins and Contemporary Re-visions
• 4. From Monstrous to Miraculous: Violent Mothers and Daughters at Home on Stage
• 5. What Happened to the Angel in the House?: The Violent Female Lover.
• 6. All the World's a Stage: The Street Fighter and the Boxer
• 7. From State-Sanctioned Power to Sexual Power: The Soldier and the Dominatrix
• 8. Babes With Blades: "Theatre That Leaves a Mark"
• 9. Epilogue.