Book contents
- Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre
- Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Creative Female Corporeality
- Chapter 1 Revolutionary Bodies: Mythmaking and Irish Feminisms
- Chapter 2 Unhomely Bodies: Transforming Space
- Chapter 3 Metamorphic ‘Bodies That Matter’: Process and Resistance
- Chapter 4 Staging Female Death: Sacrificial and Dying Bodies
- Chapter 5 Haunted Bodies and Violent Pasts
- Chapter 6 Olwen Fouéré’s Corpus: The Performer’s Body and Her Body of Work
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2019
Book contents
- Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre
- Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Creative Female Corporeality
- Chapter 1 Revolutionary Bodies: Mythmaking and Irish Feminisms
- Chapter 2 Unhomely Bodies: Transforming Space
- Chapter 3 Metamorphic ‘Bodies That Matter’: Process and Resistance
- Chapter 4 Staging Female Death: Sacrificial and Dying Bodies
- Chapter 5 Haunted Bodies and Violent Pasts
- Chapter 6 Olwen Fouéré’s Corpus: The Performer’s Body and Her Body of Work
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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