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Wounds That Speak: Feminist Stagings of Violence and Subjectivity

Wounds That Speak: Feminist Stagings of Violence and Subjectivity

Jumaah, Saif Ali Abbas
Khazail, Rasha Hassooni Abdullah

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ISBN10: 6209744796
ISBN13: 9786209744792
Publisher: Noor Publishing
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The final decade of the twentieth century is a period of profound cultural, political, and theatrical transition in Britain. Frequently described as a barren era for new drama, the 1990s were nevertheless rendered by an extraordinary resurgence of women playwrights whose work sabotaged dominant theatrical forms, ideological assumptions, and gendered power structures. In the wake of post-Thatcherite Britain, debates around post-feminism, masculinity in crisis, identity politics, and global capitalism resonated deep within the cultural production of the period. Theatre emerged as a crucial site for negotiating these tensions.In particular, this paper analyzes the feminist interventions on the English stage in the 1990s and highlights the ways in which women playwrights have sought to reshape the dramatic form, politics, and subjectivity. In this regard, it is crucial to highlight that the feminist theatre of the 1990s not only pursued the ideological agendas of second-wave feminism, as it instead offers evidence of profound transformations, which occurred as a result of changes in social circumstances, ideological paradigms, and younger generations' interests.

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