Performing Gender Violence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Noelia Hernando-Real, Barbara Ozieblo

   Pages 1-14

3. Violence against Women: Forms and Responses

   • Marta Fernández-Morales, Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández, Miriam López-Rodríguez, Barbara Ozieblo

   Pages 15-26

4. American Women Playwrights and Violence against Women

   • Noelia Hernando-Real, Barbara Ozieblo

   Pages 27-38

5. My Home, My Battleground: The Deconstruction of the American Family

   • Noelia Hernando-Real

   Pages 39-60

6. The Role of Female Bonding on the Stage of Violence

   • María Dolores Narbona-Carrión

   Pages 61-78

7. A Stalker, a Serial Killer, and the Women Who Survived Them: Psychological Abuse as a Form of Gender Violence

   • Miriam López-Rodríguez

   Pages 79-95

8. The New Breast Cancer (Im)patient: Female Revolt against Biomedical Violence in US Drama

   • Marta Fernández-Morales

   Pages 97-112

9. Survival Strategies in Recent Plays by African American Women Playwrights

   • Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández

   Pages 113-129

10. Documenting War: Theatrical Interventions by Emily Mann and Heather Raffo

    • Ilka Saal

    Pages 131-153

11. The Victim and the Audience’s Pleasure: An Exploration of Carson Kreitzer’s Self Defense and Stefanie Zadravec’s Honey Brown Eyes

    • Barbara Ozieblo

    Pages 155-172

12. Back Matter

    Pages 173-198

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Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book encompasses the theatrical devices used to represent violence on the stage in an age of virtual, immediate reality as much as the problematics of gender violence in modern society.

• America
• gender
• stage
• theatre
• women

"Performing Gender Violence is a precious addition to the scholarly literature of the representation of violence on stage as it opens up new perspectives on the discrimination women still experience today in the United States. Fascinating in terms of content, Ozieblo and Hernando-Real's collection can also be defined as a good read since the articles are informed by the stylistic enthusiasm of the authors which adds to the quality of the book." - Journal of Contemporary Drama in English

"In an astute reconfiguration of scholarly conventions, this book, authored by female scholars, is a cross between an edited collection (as the cover suggests) and a co-authored volume . . . All in all, Performing Gender Violence: Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists is a thoroughly researched book, which eloquently blends theoretical considerations with close-reading analyses of specific plays. By combining examinations of canonical and recent works, the authors contribute to enlarging our knowledge of the astonishing wealth of contemporary American drama. Therefore, this book will not only be useful to feminists: it will become an invaluable research tool for any serious scholar wishing to study new developments in contemporary US theatre." European Journal of American Studies

BARBARA OZIEBLO Professor of American Literature at the University of Malaga, Spain.
NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL Assistant Professor of English and North American Literature at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

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