Veronica Pacheco CostaUniversidad Pablo de Olavide | UPO · Department of Philology and Translation
Veronica Pacheco Costa
Dra. Filología Inglesa
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Veronica Pacheco currently works at the Department of Philology and Translation, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Veronica does research in Adult Education, Literary Theory and English Literature. Among her publucations: 'La representación del cuerpo femenino enfermo en el teatro norteamericano contemporáneo'.
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This paper is the result of the research carried out within the project “Andaluzas Ocultas. Half a century of intellectual women (1900-1950)” a FEDER Andalusia R+D+i Project directed by Professor Mercedes Arriaga Flórez, from the University of Seville. This article aims on the one hand to summarize the intense professional and intellec- tual activi...
Ambigua: revista de Investigaciones sobre Género y Estudios Culturales es una publicación electrónica que aparece en forma de monográfico y aborda aquellos temas que se encuadran dentro de las investigaciones sobre el género y los estudios culturales desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar. El público al que va dirigida es de índole internacional, y...
One of the publicity tools used by British and then American suffragists was theatre. Suffragist theatre was written for a clear purpose, which was none other than political propaganda and performance as part of the campaign being conducted. In many cases, the plays performed reflected the situation in which women lived, denouncing their circumstan...
Ambigua: revista de Investigaciones sobre Género y Estudios Culturales es una publicación electrónica que aparece en forma de monográfico y aborda aquellos temas que se encuadran dentro de las investigaciones sobre el género y los estudios culturales desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar. El público al que va dirigida es de índole internacional, y...
La presente obra monográfica se encuentra disponible al completo en el repositorio de "Ambigua. Revista de investigaciones sobre Género y Estudios Culturales" a través del siguiente enlace [LINK]:https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/ambigua/issue/view/290
This article seeks to explore how the use of comic irony in suffrage plays might be understood as a subversive element. Pro-suffrage playwrights wrote their propaganda plays in such a way as to ensure that they were funny, mocking and entertaining, whilst at the same time critiquing the social situation of women. Comic irony was used as a tool to c...
Resumen: Las dos obras de teatro norteamericano que se analizan en este trabajo, Wit (1993) de Margaret Edson y The Waiting Room (1998) de Lisa Loomer subvierten las percepciones de los cuerpos femeninos tal y como se conciben desde la ideología heteronormativa. Estas obras de teatro, que muestran cuerpos femeninos enfermos sobre el escenario, ofre...
Title in English: Ill female bodies on stage in North American contemporary theatre
Abstract: The two plays under consideration here, Margaret Edson’s Wit (1993), and
Lisa Loomer’s The Waiting Room (1998) subvert the rules of normative female bodies.
These plays, which show female ill bodies, enable us to explore the body politics and
the medical p...
