on stage and off Hadfield, D. A. (Dorothy A.) Reynolds, Jean. Weintraub, Rodelle. ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. flu Gainesville University Press of Florida c2012 2012 monographic eng

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xii, 234 p. A volume that gathers critical perspectives on Shaw's feminism and the contradictions therein. 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. edited by D. A. Hadfield and Jean Reynolds ; Foreword by Rodelle Weintraub. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 Criticism and interpretation Women in literature PR5367 .S735 2012eb 822/.912 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10629493 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10629493 CaPaEBR 120821 ebr10629493