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Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in the Plays of Edward Albee contains a general introduction and eleven essays by American and European Albee scholars on Albee's depictions of gender relations, sexual relations, monogamy, child-rearing, and homosexuality. The volume includes close readings of individual plays and more general theoretical and historical discussions.
Contributors: Henry Albright, Mary Ann Barfield, Araceli Gonzalez Crespan, Andrew Darr, John M. Clum, Paul Grant, Emeline Jouve, T. Ross Leasure, David Marcia, Cormac O'Brien, Donald Pease, Valentine Vasak
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Editors' Introduction
John M. Clum and Cormac O'Brien
1 Dismembering/Remembering: Dramatizing the Family in The American Dream
Emeline Jouve
2 The Gay Geography of New York City in The Zoo Story
T. Ross Leasure
3 Revisiting the Zoo: Time and Gender in Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo
Andrew Darr
4 "The Aims of Spirit": Performing Marriage in Albee's Plays
David Marcia
5 Collateral Damage: Raising and Destroying [Gay?] Sons in Albee's Plays
John M. Clum
6 A Body of One's Own: Martha's Performative Physicality in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mary Ann Barfield
7 The Uncrossable Line: Reading Martha as Transgender in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Henry Albright
8 The Tragic (Male) Hero in the Wake of the New Millennium: Upturning Gender and Sexuality in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Araceli González Crespán
9 "Do you want it?" The Commodification of Sexuality in the Late Plays of Edward Albee
Valentine Vasak
10 Malcolm, Sexual Politics, Edward Albee's Adaptations
Donald E. Pease
11 "A wet run, so to speak": Sexuality in Edward Albee's Lolita
Paul Benedict Grant
Bibliography
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