Queer Mythologies: The Original Stageplays of Pam GemsThis book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title Queer Mythologies. Pam Gems has written over 25 plays, and has not had adequate detailed analysis of her plays to date. She is a popular playwright produced often at the West End and has a widespread appeal by being on the pulse of cultural iconology. Gems writes strong central characters for both male and female actors, and often writes almost cinematically, with time shifts in a non-linear narrativization. Her characters are metaphors for contemporary women and men and she often herstoricizes, thus righting the balance of dramatic history by creating parts for women in British drama. Her dramaturgy brings to the mainstream theatre the identities and subcultures of class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality making her plays queer mythologies. |
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... male eyes , as psychoanalysis allowed only a male subject , critics such as Laura Mulvey , followed by E. Ann Kaplan et al , spoke ( in feminist terms and never acknowledging the Sartrean source ) of the male gaze , the pleasure of the ...
... male eyes , as psychoanalysis allowed only a male subject , critics such as Laura Mulvey , followed by E. Ann Kaplan et al , spoke ( in feminist terms and never acknowledging the Sartrean source ) of the male gaze , the pleasure of the ...
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... male and female is much more ambivalent , diffused and differentiated than Mulvey's rigid phallogocentric logic.8 However , Freud's contention that there is only one libido , masculine , and that the castration complex and phallic envy ...
... male and female is much more ambivalent , diffused and differentiated than Mulvey's rigid phallogocentric logic.8 However , Freud's contention that there is only one libido , masculine , and that the castration complex and phallic envy ...
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... male heir . Her ' sex ' is thus an effect of power relations . Queen Christina is subject to a set of social norms regulations - which determine her as male sexed . Her sex , gender , pleasures , desires are inevitably formulated in a ...
... male heir . Her ' sex ' is thus an effect of power relations . Queen Christina is subject to a set of social norms regulations - which determine her as male sexed . Her sex , gender , pleasures , desires are inevitably formulated in a ...
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