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Shaw and Women

 

 

Weintraub, Rodelle, ed. Fabian feminist: Bernard Shaw and woman. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1977. 275 pp (‘Introduction: Fabian feminist,’ 1-12)

 

Pharand, Michel W. ‘A selected bibliography of writings by and about Bernard Shaw concerning love, sex, marriage, women, and related topics.’ SHAW 24 2004 221-35; ‘A supplement to SHAW 24’s selected bibliography of writings by and about Bernard Shaw concerning love, sex, marriage, women, and related topics.’ SHAW 25 2005 257-59 (supersedes Lucy K. Henderson. ‘[Shaw and women:] A bibliographical checklist.’ Pp 262-71 in Weintraub, R)

 

 

Adams, Elsie B. ‘Feminism and female stereotypes in Shaw.’ Shaw Review 17 1974 17-22; repr. on pp 156-62 in Weintraub, R

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s ladies.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 112-18

 

Ahrens, Rüdiger. ‘Motivgeschichtliche Aspekte der new woman im englischen Drama der Jahrhundertwende.’ Pp 293-320 in Heinz J. Müllenbrock & Alfons Klein, eds. Motive und Themen in englischsprachiger Literatur als Indikatoren literaturgeschichtlicher Prozesse. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990 (304-19 on Shaw’s plays)

 

Andrecht, Ernst H. Sprachsoziologische Aspekte in der dramatischen Sprachgestaltung Bernard Shaws. Frankfurt: Lang, 1976, 92-116: ‘“The New Woman”’

 

Block, Toni. ‘Shaw’s women.’ Modern Drama 2 1959 133-38

 

Cherry, Wymm. ‘A look back at Shaw’s feminism.’ Independent Shavian 32 1994 53-55

 

Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine. ‘Spinsters versus sinners: a late nineteenth-century paradigm in G. B. Shaw’s plays.’ Imaginaires 2 1997 91-111

 

Collins, John S. ‘Bernard Shaw und die Frauen.’ Berliner Hefte für Geistiges Leben 4 1949 143-55 (two types in his life and in his plays)

 

Crane, Gladys M. ‘Shaw and women’s lib.’ Shaw Review 17 1974 23-31

 

Das, Nila. ‘The Shavian New Woman as outsider.’ Pp 53-62 in Pandey

 

Davis, Jill. ‘The New Woman and the new life.’ Pp 17-36 in Viv Gardner & Susan Rutherford, eds. The New Woman and her sisters: feminism and theatre 1850-1914. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992

 

Drew, Anne M. ‘Embracing ambiguity: Shaw’s women.’ Pp 158-70 in Katherine H. Burkman & Judith Roof, eds. Staging the rage: the web of misogyny in modern drama. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991. 282 pp (parts from ‘G.B.S. and the New Woman.’ New England Theatre Journal 1 1990 1-17 and ‘Lesbian sexuality and violence in the plays of G. B. Shaw.’ Pp 177-89 in Violence in drama. Themes in drama, 13. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991 )

 

Gilmartin, Andrina. ‘Mr. Shaw’s many mothers.’ Shaw Review 8 1965 93-103; revised and repr. on pp 143-55 of Weintraub, R

 

Greiner, Norbert. ‘Mill, Marx and Bebel: early influences on Shaw’s characterization of women.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 10-17; repr. on pp 90-98 of Weintraub, R

 

Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s ‘New Woman’. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1975. 222 pp

 

Kelly, Katherine E. ‘Shaw on woman suffrage: a minor player on the petticoat platform.’ SHAW 14 1994 67-81

Khanna, Savitri. ‘Shaw’s image of woman.’ Shavian 4 1973 253-59

 

Lenker, Lagretta T. Fathers and daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 2001. 201 pp

 

-----. ‘Pre-Oedipal Shaw: “It’s always the mother.”’ SHAW 26 2006 36-57 (some stress on Back to Methuselah)

 

Lorichs, Sonja. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw’s drama and her social and political background. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. 196 pp; ‘The “unwomanly woman” in Shaw’s drama.’ Pp 98-111 in Weintraub, R

 

Mathur, S. C., & Akhilesh Kumar. ‘The Shavian concept of spider-woman.’ Triveni 55 iii 1986 71-75

 

McDonald, Jan. ‘New Women in the New Drama.’ New Theatre Quarterly 21 1990 31-42

 

Molnar, Joseph. ‘Shaw’s living women.’ Shaw Society Bulletin 49 1953 7-11

 

Morgan, Margery M. ‘Edwardian feminism and the drama: Shaw and Granville Barker.’ Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiennes 9-10 1979 63-85

 

Nethercot, Arthur. ‘Bernard Shaw, ladies and gentlemen.’ Modern Drama 2 1959 84-98 (contradictions between their codes and their behavior)

 

Nickson, Richard. ‘GBS and Laura Ormiston Chant: man and superwoman.’ Independent Shavian 37 1999 21-24

 

Omasreiter-Blaicher, Ria. ‘Die gescheiterte Emanzipation der Frauen im feministischen Drama der Gegenwart.’ Anglia 112 1994 390-410 (part on Shaw’s early plays)

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004. 231 pp, especially 61-99: ‘Lovers coupled by the Life Force’

 

Peters, Margot. ‘Foreword.’ Pp 9-17 in Shaw. Shaw on women. Ed. Peters. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1992 (comments on My Dear Dorothea, ‘Women as councillors,’ etc.)

 

Peters, Sally. ‘Shaw’s life: a feminist in spite of himself.’ Pp 3-24 in Innes; repr. on pp 400-420 in Byrne

 

Powell, Kerry. ‘New Women, new plays, and Shaw in the 1890s.’ Pp 76-100 in Innes

 

Radford, Fred. ‘Domestic drama and drama of empire: intertextuality and the subaltern woman in late Victorian theatre.’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts 20 i 1995 1-25

 

Sachs, Lisbeth J., & Bernard H. Stern. ‘Bernard Shaw and his women.’ British Journal of Medical Psychology 37 1964 343-50

 

Sauer, David K. ‘“Only a woman” in Arms and the Man.’ SHAW 15 1995 151-66

 

Sengupta, Gautam. ‘New Women, new idioms.’ Shavian 10 iii 2006 8-16

 

Sharpe, Susan L. ‘Neither sudden nor startling: a look at choice in Shaw’s women.’ Literature in Performance 6 ii 1986 22-29

 

Smith, J. Percy. ‘The New Woman and the Old Goddess: the shaping of Shaw’s mythology.’ Pp 74-90 in S. F. Gallagher, ed. Women in Irish legend, life and literature. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1981

 

Spiel, Hilde. ‘Shaw und die Frauen: Methusalem zwischen Gefühl und Sinnlichkeit.’ Monat 7 1954 113-28

 

Tahir, Laura. ‘My Dear Dorothea: Shaw’s earliest sketch.’ SHAW 9 1989 7-21

Watson, Barbara B. ‘The New Woman and the new comedy.’ Shaw Review 17 1974 2-16; repr. on pp 114-29 in Weintraub, R and on pp 144-57 in Adams

 

-----. A Shavian guide to the intelligent woman. London: Chatto & Windus, 1964. 250 pp

 

Weimer, Michael. ‘Press Cuttings: G.B.S. and women’s suffrage.’ Pp 84-89 in Weintraub, R

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘The Irish lady in Shaw’s plays.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 77-89

 

-----. ‘Votes for women: Bernard Shaw and the Women’s Suffrage Movement.’ Pp 33-40 in C. C. Barfoot & Rias van den Doel, eds. Ritual remembering: history, myth and politics in Anglo-Irish drama. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995 (Costerus 99)

 

Wiley, Catherine. ‘The matter with manners: the New Woman and the problem play.’ Pp 109-27 in James Redmond, ed. Women in theatre. Themes in drama, 11. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 (plays by Jones, Pinero, Shaw, and Elizabeth Robins)

 

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