Breaking the bounds : British feminist dramatists writing in the mainstream since c. 1980 /
"Breaking the Bounds focuses on second-wave feminism as a rupture in an unbroken episteme of Western patriarchy analyzed with regard to British dramatic discourse. The theoretical framework is a genealogy of patriarchy deploying and developing Foucault's ideas on discourse to apply to a de...
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[2003], ©2003
New York : c2003 |
| Series: | American university studies Theatre arts ;
v. 31. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1 Patriarchy and the (Western) Patriarchal Impulse
- Shifts and Transformations
- Top Girls as a Document of a Foucauldian Episteme (c. Ninth-Century C.E. to 1980) Characterized by The Patriarchal Impulse
- Off the Mainstream Stages: The Formation of Black Lesbian Subjectivity in 1980s British Dramatic Discourse. Chiaroscuro (1986)
- The Feminist Epistemic Transgression (Transformation in Discourse)
- Fragmenting the Western Male-Gendered Theatrical grand recit: Blue Heart - Heart's Desire and Blue Kettle
- Ch. 2. Effecting a Rupture with Male Dramatic Discourse: Caryl Churchill
- Feminism and 'The System': The Early Reaction - Owners
- Domestic Colonialism: Empire, Patriarchy, Family; Race, Gender, Sexuality - Cloud Nine
- A Collective Enterprise: Feminism in Theatre as a Consciously Counter-Normative Practice - Monstrous Regiment and Vinegar Tom
- Vinegar Tom's Women are the Contemporary Women of Fen
- Ch. 1 Patriarchy and the (Western) Patriarchal Impulse
- Shifts and Transformations
- Top Girls as a Document of a Foucauldian Episteme (c. Ninth-Century C.E. to 1980) Characterized by The Patriarchal Impulse
- Off the Mainstream Stages: The Formation of Black Lesbian Subjectivity in 1980s British Dramatic Discourse. Chiaroscuro (1986)
- The Feminist Epistemic Transgression (Transformation in Discourse)
- Fragmenting the Western Male-Gendered Theatrical grand recit: Blue Heart - Heart's Desire and Blue Kettle
- Ch. 2. Effecting a Rupture with Male Dramatic Discourse: Caryl Churchill
- Feminism and 'The System': The Early Reaction - Owners
- Domestic Colonialism: Empire, Patriarchy, Family; Race, Gender, Sexuality - Cloud Nine
- A Collective Enterprise: Feminism in Theatre as a Consciously Counter-Normative Practice - Monstrous Regiment and Vinegar Tom
- Vinegar Tom's Women are the Contemporary Women of Fen
- Politics and War: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Mad Forest
- The Surveillance Machine: Softcops and Icecream
- The Capitalist Machine: Serious Money
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia: The Skriker as Oedipus and Anti-Oedipus
- Ch. 3. White Women's Mythologies: Pam Gems
- Queen Christina: Identity Politics
- Courtesan/Hetaira/Whore: Camille, Piaf, Stas
- Ch. 4. From Hetero-Normativity to the View from Lesbos: Through the Looking Glass / Dimple Godiwala and Sarah Daniels
- The Feminist-Lesbian Appropriation of a Genre: Melodrama
- More Dragged out of the British Closet: Beside Herself
- Master/Pieces
- The Rites of/the Rights of Birth: Byrthrite
- Ch. 5. Soliloquizing Woman: Clare McIntyre and Anne Devlin's Subjects of Desire
- The Female Subject and the Soliloquy/Monologue
- A Theatre in Exile: Anne Devlin's Subjects with Agency
- Ch. 6. Recapitulation
- App. Plays & Dates.
- 'Performance Theory'--What is it?
- The 'performativity of the dramatic text'
- The Thesis
- Western Patriarchy and the Feminist Epistemic Transgression
- Patriarchy and the (Western) Patriarchal Impulse
- Shifts and Transformations
- Top Girls as a Document of a Foucauldian Episteme (c. Ninth-Century C.E. to 1980) Characterized by The Patriarchal Impulse
- Off the Mainstream Stages: The Formation of Black Lesbian Subjectivity in 1980s British Dramatic Discourse. Chiaroscuro (1986)
- The Feminist Epistemic Transgression (Transformation in Discourse)
- Fragmenting the Western Male-Gendered Theatrical grand recit: Blue Heart--Heart's Desire and Blue Kettle
- Breaking the Bounds of the British Main/Male Stream: Five Contemporary Dramatists and Their Transgressive Re-formations in the Predominantly Male Territory of British Mainstream Drama
- Effecting a Rupture with Male Dramatic Discourse: Caryl Churchill
- Feminism and 'The System': The Early Reaction--Owners
- Domestic Colonialism: Empire, Patriarchy, Family; Race, Gender, Sexuality--Cloud Nine
- A Collective Enterprise: Feminism in Theatre as a Consciously Counter-Normative Practice--Monstrous Regiment and Vinegar Tom
- Vinegar Tom's Women are the Contemporary Women of Fen
- Politics and War: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Mad Forest
- The Surveillance Machine: Softcops and Icecream
- The Capitalist Machine: Serious Money
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia: The Skriker as Oedipus and Anti-Oedipus
- White Women's Mythologies: Pam Gems
- Queen Christina: Identity Politics
- Politics and War: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Mad Forest
- The Surveillance Machine: Softcops and Icecream
- The Capitalist Machine: Serious Money
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia: The Skriker as Oedipus and Anti-Oedipus
- Ch. 3 White Women's Mythologies: Pam Gems
- Queen Christina: Identity Politics
- Courtesan/Hetaira/Whore: Camille, Piaf, Stas
- Ch. 4. From Hetero-Normativity to the View from Lesbos: Through the Looking Glass / Dimple Godiwala and Sarah Daniels
- The Feminist-Lesbian Appropriation of a Genre: Melodrama
- More Dragged out of the British Closet: Beside Herself
- Master/Pieces
- The Rites of/the Rights of Birth: Byrthrite
- Ch. 5. Soliloquizing Woman: Clare McIntyre and Anne Devlin's Subjects of Desire
- The Female Subject and the Soliloquy/Monologue
- A Theatre in Exile: Anne Devlin's Subjects with Agency
- Ch. 6. Recapitulation
- App. Plays & Dates.