| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 311 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Worlds of performance
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Worlds of performance.
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| 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 -- 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 -- Constant state of desire / Karen Finley. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminist theater -- United States -- History.
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Feminist theater. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Feminism and theater.
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Feminism and theater. |
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Women in the theater.
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Women in the theater. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Martin, Carol J.
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| Added Title |
Sourcebook on feminist theatre & performance |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 0415106443 (DLC) 96017794 (OCoLC)34584026 |
| ISBN |
0203426541 (electronic book) |
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9780203426548 (electronic book) |
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9780415106443 (alkaline paper) |
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0415106443 (alkaline paper) |
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9780415106450 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415106451 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0203734785 |
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9780203734780 |
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1280320311 |
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9781280320316 |
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0415106443 (Cloth) |
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0415106451 (Paper) |
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