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Wounds That Speak: Feminist Staging of Violence and Subjectivity

Wounds That Speak: Feminist Staging of Violence and Subjectivity

Jumaah, Saif Ali Abbas
Khazail, Rasha Hassooni Abdullah

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ISBN10: 6209424562
ISBN13: 9786209424564
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: Feb 25 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines the closing decades of the twentieth century as a pivotal period of cultural, political, and theatrical transformation in Britain. It argues that women playwrights played a decisive role in reshaping English theatre by challenging inherited dramatic conventions, ideological assumptions, and entrenched power structures. Through innovative theatrical forms, these writers interrogated post-Thatcherite debates, post-feminist discourses, masculinity in crisis, identity politics, and the cultural consequences of global capitalism.Focusing on English stage productions of the 1990s, the study analyzes feminist interventions in both content and form, demonstrating how these works foregrounded violence, subjectivity, and embodied experience. The book highlights the theatre of the 1990s not as a sign of feminist decline, but as compelling evidence of feminism's continued vitality, ideological diversity, and capacity to articulate social transformations across generations.

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