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Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / Tracy C. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Tracy C., 1960-
- Series:
- Gender and performance.
- Gender and performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Theater and society.
- Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women in the theater.
- Actresses--Great Britain.
- Actresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE; Family dynasties, recruitment, and career opportunities for women; The Profession's divisions of labour; Wages; SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY; The Female Surplus Question and the sex ratio; The female life; Professional welfare; THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC AND 'RESPECTABILITY'; Actresses' defiance of socioeconomic prescriptions; Actresses and prostitutes; Sexual harassment; The quintessential sexual terror; ACTRESSES AND THE MISE EN SCNE
- Costuming the erotic topographyGesture: 'Every little movement has a meaning of its own'; Figural composition in the mise en scne; Erotic verification; THE GEOGRAPHY OF SEX IN SOCIETY AND THEATRE; The erotic neighbourhood outside the playhouse; Erotic zones within the playhouse; Forestalling the erotic; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-44271-9
- 1-134-93447-5
- 1-134-93446-7
- 9786610442713
- 0-203-20001-2
- 9780203200018
- OCLC:
- 646718084
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