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A sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance : on and beyond the stage / edited by Carol Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Worlds of performance.
- Worlds of performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist theater--United States--History.
- Feminist theater.
- Feminism and theater.
- Women in the theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; Introductory Essay: Fathom Languages: Feminist Performance Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice; Art Versus Business: The Role of Women in American Theatre; Women for Women; The WOW Cafe; Notes on Lesbian Theatre; Women at the Helm: In Leadership Posts Once Reserved for Men, They're Challenging Our Assumptions About Sex and Power; Bearing Witness: Anna Deavere Smith from Community to Theatre to Mass Media
- In Defense of the Discourse: Materialist Feminism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and Theory Motherhood According to Karen Finley: The Theory of Total Blame; Brechtian Theory/Feminist Theory: Toward a Gestic Feminist Criticism; Reading Past the Heterosexual Imperative: Dress Suits to Hire; Feminist Theory, Poststructuralism, and Performance; Anna Deavere Smith: The Word Becomes You An Interview by; Robbie McCauley: Obsessing in Public An Interview by; Holly Hughes: Polymorphous Perversity and the Lesbian Scientist An Interview by; Karen Finley: A Constant State of Becoming An Interview by
- Dress Suits to Hire Written by The Constant State of Desire A Text by; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138346925
- 1138346926
- 9781134844234
- 1134844239
- 9781280320316
- 1280320311
- 9781134844241
- 1134844247
- 9780203426548
- 0203426541
- OCLC:
- 259512096
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