Collection consists of two parts: contributions to the discourses of performance scholarship, gender/feminist scholarship, and mother scholarship; and scripts that portray the image of mother and mother perspectives on the stage
Includes bibliographical references
ESSAYS AND SCRIPTS ON HOW MOTHERS ARE PORTRAYED IN THE THEATRE: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beth Osnes and Jennifer Popple; Hispanic Mothers on Stage: Women Playwrights Undermining Masculinist Values; Monstrous Girls and Their Monstrous Mothers; Italian Mammas and Suffering Madonnas: The Strategic Deployment of Maternal Stereotypes in theTheatre of Franca Rame; Motherhood Displaced: Rachel Crothers' The Three of Us and A Man's World
The Abject of My Affection: The Erotics of Stepmotherhood in Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love and the Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie (Phedre)""She watches us watching her"": The Theatre of Maternity and the Performance of Maternal Failure in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night; Not So Sainted: Mothers on the Contemporary Irish Stage; What Kind of Mother Are You? Catholic Mothers in Contemporary American Drama; Julie and Manta Rose: The Musical Theatre Mother; The Mother Load: A One-woman Theatrical Performance; scenes from afterbirth: A One-woman Poetry Slam/ HipHop Performance
This collection examines the nexus of mothering, feminism, and theatre. The work examines the portrayals of mothers in literature and on the performance stage, and makes a contribution to studies in dramatic literature, women?s studies, feminist theory, and theatre history
