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    Constructions of Femininity in England

    Edited by Kate Aughterson ...
    Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook is an invaluable collection of accounts of women and femininity in early modern England. The volume is divided thematically into nine sections, each with an accessible introduction, notes on sources and an annotated bibliography. The sections are: * Theology * Biology * Conduct * Sexuality and Motherhood * Politics and Law * Education * Work * Writing and Speaking * ... Read more

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  • Women Experimenting in Theatre

    Early Modern to Contemporary

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays, covering a broad historical range, shows that women working in theatre and drama since the time of Aphra Behn have been engaged in pushing the boundaries of conventional representation and dramaturgical convention. Collectively the authors show that women have used performing spaces as a channel for both political and personal radicalism - one that has demanded and ... Read more

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  • Socially Engaged Creative Practice

    Contemporary Case Studies

    Series series Performance and Communities
    This is the second book in the Performance and Communities series. An edited collection from academics and artists engages with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space – and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal.Each chapter focuses on an individual or group’s mode of working and ... Read more

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  • Performing Maternities

    Political, Social and Feminist Enquiry

    Series Book 4 - Performance and Communities
    Performing Maternities is a collection of essays, creative work, images and scripts which emerged out of an online international symposium held at Brighton University in November 2020. Collectively, the contributors challenge, celebrate and share the normative, the queer, the transgressive, the joy and the pain of performing maternity. The book asks key questions about the construction of maternal ... Read more

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  • Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

    Early Modern to Contemporary

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation—of style, mode, voice, genre and language—has enabled women writers to be ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Jim Crace

    Into the Wilderness

    Edited by Katy Shaw, Kate Aughterson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates. This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace’s work provides a retrospective on his work to date, locating his work within a number of contemporary interdisciplinary critical and cultural perspectives and concerns, including post-humanism, post ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Gender

    Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama

    Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Aphra Behn: The Comedies

    Series series Analysing Texts
    Kate Aughterson provides readers with an approachable and fascinating critical guide to the dramatic works of an important seventeenth-century woman writer. Aughterson analyses Aphra Behn's abilities as a playwright, showing particularly how she skillfully employs comic and dramatic conventions to radical ends, and how she forces her audience to engage with issues about gender and sexuality whilst ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare: The Late Plays

    Series series Analysing Texts
    What makes Shakespeare's late plays so special? Through detailed analyses of key passages, Kate Aughterson shows how these plays portray a world of political intrigue, familial chaos and crisis, which teeters continually into tragedy: a world we can recognise today.Part I of this engaging study:- Provides stimulating close readings of extracts from The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and ... Read more

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  • Care Ethics and Art

    What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices which might forge an alternative ethics in the age of neoliberalism.Interdisciplinary and innovative, it brings together contributions from ... Read more

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  • Material Girls

    Why Reality Matters for Feminism

    PREORDER KATHLEEN STOCK'S NEW BOOK DO NOT GO GENTLE: THE CASE AGAINST ASSISTED DEATH (APRIL, 2026)'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday TimesMaterial Girls is a timely and trenchant criti... ... Read more

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