A sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance : on and beyond the stage / / edited by Carol Martin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783642603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• ISBN: 1-134-84423-9; 1-280-32031-1; 1-134-84424-7; 0-203-42654-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Collana: Worlds of performance
• Disciplina: 792/.082
• Soggetti: Feminist theater - United States - History; Feminism and theater; Women in the theater
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.