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...
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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influence on feminism is reexamined through the lens of twenty-first-century feminist thought as well as previously unpublished primary sources.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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University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
Here, Shaw's long-recognized influence on feminism is re-examined through the lens of 21st-century feminist thought as well as previously unpublished primary sources. New links appear between Shaw's writings and his gendered notions of physicality...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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Here, Shaw's long-recognized influence on feminism is re-examined through the lens of 21st-century feminist thought as well as previously unpublished primary sources. New links appear between Shaw's writings and his gendered notions of physicality pain, performance, nationalism, authorship, and politics.
