Examining the Use of Safety, Confrontation, and Ambivalence in Six Depictions of Reproductive Women on the American Stage, 1997-2007 : Staging?The Place? of Abortion
EXAMINING THE USE OF SAFETY,CONFRONTATION, AND AMBIVALENCE IN SIX DEPICTIONS OF REPRODUCTIVE WOMEN ON THE AMERICAN STAGE, 1997-2007: Staging 'The Place' of Abortion; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: When 'History Came Undone': Contextualizing American Theatre within the Contemporary Abortion Debate; Chapter 1: ""Gravida"" Versus the World: Control and Distance in The Credeaux Canvas and Mitzi 's Abortion; Chapter 2: Tense Liminality: Abortion Protest on Stage in The Water Children and Retrospect for Life
Chapter 3: Confrontation and 'The Place': The Act of Abortion On or Near the Stage in Fucking A and Jane Chapter 4: Staging the ""Third Position"" of Abortion and Ambivalence:The Power of Conflicting Truths; Interview Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book fills a gap created when overtly politicized and polarized writing on abortion is removed. It seeks to explore the ways in which theater can serve as a particularly useful place to explore abortion
