TY  - BOOK
AU  - Komporaly,Jozefina
TI  - Staging motherhood: British women playwrights, 1956 to the present 
SN  - 1403999090
AV  - PR739.M68 K66 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Basingstoke [England], New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - English drama
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Motherhood in literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Feminism and literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-201) and index; 1. Rethinking motherhood: instances of proto-feminism; -- The chalk garden; -- A taste of honey; -- Play with a tiger; -- The sport of my mad mother; -- 2. Irreversible choice: female professional success; -- Queen Christina; -- Owners; -- Top girls; -- 3. Challenging the bond: mothers versus daughters; -- Salonika and real estate; -- The memory of water; -- My mother said I never should; -- Leave taking; -- Kindertransport; -- Butterfly kiss; -- Phaedra's love; -- 4. Daughters as mothers: the teenager as potential parent; -- My mother says I never should; -- When I was a girl, I used to scream and shout; -- Rose's story; -- Back street mammy; -- 5. Maternal desire against the odds; -- Making a claim for lesbian motherhood; -- Care and control; -- AID they neighbour; -- Neaptide; -- Adoption, infertility, technology; -- Byrthrite; -- The adoption papers; -- The choice; -- The break of day; -- 6. Alternative dramaturgies: rewriting the maternal body; -- Peeling; -- Cake; -- Yerma's eggs
ER  -