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A sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance : on and beyond the stage
Title
A sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance : on and beyond the stage / edited by Carol Martin.
ISBN
0203426541
0203734785
1134844190
1134844239
1134844247
1280320311
6610320314
9780203426548
9780203734780
9781134844197
9781134844234
9781134844241
9781280320316
9786610320318
0415106443
0415106443
0415106451
0415106451
9780415106443
9780415106450
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 311 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
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Summary
This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deavere Smith and Robbie McCauley.
Variant and related titles
Sourcebook on feminist theatre & performance
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Worlds of performance
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: History. Art versus business: the role of women in American theatre / Helen Krich Chinoy
Women for women / Charlotte Rea
The WOW cafe / Alisa Solomon
Notes on lesbian theatre / Emily L. Sisley
Women at the helm: in leadership posts once reserved for men, they're challenging our assumptions about sex and power / Misha Berson
Part II: Theory. Bearing witness: Anna Deavere Smith from community to theatre to mass media / Carol Martin
In defense of the discourse: materialist feminism, postmodernism, poststructuralism ... and theory / Jill Dolan
Motherhood according to Karen Finley: The Theory of total blame / Lynda Hart
Brechtian theory/feminist theory: toward a gestic feminist criticism / Elin Diamond
Reading past the heterosexual imperative: Dress suits to hire / Kate Davy
Feminist theory, poststructuralism, and performance / Peggy Phelan
Part III: Interviews. Anna Deavere Smith: the word becomes you / Carol Martin
Robbie McCauley: Obsessing in public / Vivian Patraka
Holly Hughes: polymorphous perversity and the lesbian scientist / Rebecca Schneider
Karen Finley: a constant state of becoming / Richard Schechner
Part IV: Texts. Dress suits to hire / Holly Hughes, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw
The Constant state of desire / Karen Finley.
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