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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783642603321

Titolo

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

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.