Shaw and Feminisms : On Stage and Off.
- Florida : University Press of Florida, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
- Florida Bernard Shaw .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. THE WOMESN IN SHAW'S PLSYS; 1. Shaw's Athletic-Minded Women; 2. Shaw and Cruelty; 3. Shutting Out Mother: Vivie Warren as the New Woman; 4. The Politics of Shaw's Irish Women in John Bull's Other Island; PATE II. SHAW'S RELATIONSHIP WITH WOMEN; 5. Bernard Shaw and the Archbishop's Daughter; 6. Writing Women: Shaw and Feminism behind the Scenes; 7. Feminist Politics and the Two Irish "Georges": Egerton versus Shaw; 8. The Passionate Anarchist and Her Idea Man; PART III. SHAVLAN FEMINISM IN THE LARGER WORLD. 9. Mrs Warren's Profession and the Development of Transnational Chinese Feminism10. Shaw's Women in the World; 11. The Energy behind the Anomaly: In Conversation with Jackie Maxwell; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z.
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 private attitudes sit uncomfortably beside his public philosophies that were so foundational to first-wave feminism. Here, Shaw's long-recognized influence on feminism is reexamined through the lens of twenty-first-century feminist thought as well as previously unpublished primary sources. New links appea.
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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 --Criticism and interpretation.
Women in literature. English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature.