Shaw and feminisms [electronic resource] : on stage and off / edited by D.A. Hadfield and Jean Reynolds ; Foreword by Rodelle Weintraub.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

A volume that gathers critical perspectives on Shaw's feminism and the contradictions therein.

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