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Shaw and feminisms : on stage and off /

When offstage actions contradict a playwright's onstage message, literary study gets messy. In his personal relationships, George Bernard Shaw was often ambivalent toward liberated women - surprisingly so, considering his reputation as one of the first champions of women's rights. His priv...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hadfield, D. A. (Dorothy A.), Reynolds, Jean, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Series:Florida Bernard Shaw series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Women in Shaw's Plays. Shaw's Athletic-Minded Women ; Shaw and Cruelty ; Shutting Out Mother : Vivie Warren as the New Woman ; The Politics of Shaw's Irish Women in John Bull's Other Island
  • Shaw's Relationship with Women. Bernard Shaw and the Archbishop's Daughter ; Writing Women : Shaw and Feminism behind the Scenes ; Feminist Politics and the Two Irish "Georges" : Egerton versus Shaw ; The Passionate Anarchist and Her Idea Man
  • Shavlan Feminism in the Larger World. Mrs Warren's Profession and the Development of Transnational Chinese Feminism ; Shaw's Women in the World ; The Energy behind the Anomaly : In Conversation with Jackie Maxwell.