In much of her criticism, Anna Livia
examines the ways in which lesbian identities, relationships, and experiences are constructed in English and French language, literature, and culture. She is also fascinated by the overlap and...
Literary responses
Michelene Wandor
Susanne Greenhalgh
faulted the revised Post-War British Drama for being explicitly gendered and highly selective,
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6.
125
insufficiently attentive to recent playwrights like Sarah Kane
and Mark Ravenhill
, and for declining to engage with the...
Literary responses
Mary Shelley
When theoretical critic Barbara Johnson
composed an essay on MS
in 1980 she was choosing, for a symposium on Jacques Derrida
, a relatively unknown topic—yet for the rest of her career she found she...
Literary responses
Mary Catherine Hume
Critic Susan Brown
places the poem within the context of feminist activism and the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts, and in relation to Judith Butler
's performative model of gender, as an instance...
Performance of text
Anne Carson
AC
's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...
Timeline
1989: US theorist Judith Butler published perhaps...
Writing climate item
1989
US theorist Judith Butler
published perhaps her best-known work, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.