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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151625803321

Titolo

Shaw and feminisms [[electronic resource] ] : on stage and off / / edited by D. A. Hadfield and Jean Reynolds ; Foreword by Rodelle Weintraub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012

ISBN

0-8130-4306-9

0-8130-4265-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Florida Bernard Shaw series

Altri autori (Persone)

HadfieldD. A (Dorothy A.)

ReynoldsJean

WeintraubRodelle

Disciplina

822/.912

Soggetti

Women in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A volume that gathers critical perspectives on Shaw's feminism and the contradictions therein.