Kathleen Starck Knihy

K. Starck: “A Heavy Sense of Dread”: British Cold War Culture – R. Emig: The Cambridge Spies: Class, Gender, Sexuality and Politics in Cold War Britain – S. Böhm: “Smyert Shpionam – Death to Spies”: Cold War Representations of the Soviet Enemy in Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love – H. Duffield: Worlds Out of Control: Invasion Narratives, Interspecies Conflict, and British Culture in the Early Cold War – M. Worley: No Doves Fly Here: British Punk and Cold War Dystopia – S. Brusberg-Kiermeier & J. McKenzie: Desire and Anxiety: Cold War Voyeurism in Contemporary TV Spy Series – Reviews – Jim Smyth (2016), Cold War Culture: Intellectuals, the Media and the Practice of History – Jonathan Hogg (2016), British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long 20th Century – Sebastian Berg (2016), Intellectual Radicalism after 1989: Crisis and Re-Orientation in the British and the American Left – Petra Rau, ed. (2016), Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Fiction and Film – Kathleen Starck (2016), Of Treason, God and Testicles: Political Masculinities in British and American Films Of the Early Cold War – Christoph Singer (2014), Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville.

British Women's Drama of the 1980s and 1990s This study gives an overview of British women's drama of the 1980s and 1990s. It analyses thirty plays by twenty-six authors, whose works have been performed from 1980 onwards. Against the background of the first wave of women playwrights and women's theatre companies during the 1960s and 1970s, a number of trends are pointed out. Major influences on British women's drama were the rise and fall of Thatcherism, the coming of age of the women's liberation and gay liberation movements and the emergence of a „multi-cultural“ Britain. The advancement of feminism, in particular, affected the choice of subject matter and the approach taken. There are parallels between the maturing of feminist studies/feminist literary criticism and trends in British women’s drama of the 1980s and 1990s. These parallels, such as turning away from the mere “consciousness raising” of first and second wave feminism and first wave women’s drama, are evident in the emergence of gender transgressing subjects and in changes in dramatic form.

Das Buch soll einerseits der Interdisziplinarität der Geschlechterforschung in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften Rechnung tragen. Andererseits soll es die immense allgegenwärtige Bedeutung von Gender in unserem Alltag illustrieren, auch dort, wo wir es vielleicht nicht vermuten, wie z.B. in unserem Denken und Reden, in der Politik, beim Lesen, beim Feiern an Fastnacht, im Tatort und auch in klassischem deutschen Liedgut. Kathleen Starck ist Professorin für Cultural Studies im Fach Anglistik an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau.