Contemporary Feminist Theatres: To Each Her OwnContemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary study of the development of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the treatment of key issues such as gender, race, sexuality, language and power in performance. Based on original research and fresh data, Contemporary Feminst Theatres is a fully comprehensive and admirably clear analysis of a flourishing field of practice and inquiry. |
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To Each Her Own Lizbeth Goodman. S E R I E S E D I T O R S ' P R E F A C E Duringthepasttwodecades,the advent of feminist criticism has ensured that large numbers of previously unknown or forgotten women writers and artists have been ...
To Each Her Own Lizbeth Goodman. S E R I E S E D I T O R S ' P R E F A C E Duringthepasttwodecades,the advent of feminist criticism has ensured that large numbers of previously unknown or forgotten women writers and artists have been ...
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... feminist theatre', defined as political theatre oriented toward change, produced by women with feminist concerns, a ... criticism—closely related totheform ofcultural representation knownasautobiography. 1 Thisrecognition ofthe ...
... feminist theatre', defined as political theatre oriented toward change, produced by women with feminist concerns, a ... criticism—closely related totheform ofcultural representation knownasautobiography. 1 Thisrecognition ofthe ...
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... feminist theatre studies,SusanBassnett's work is most substantial: sheoffersthefirst coherent applicationsof semiotic theorytowomen'stheatre (as opposedto feminist ... critics arecompared by way ofintroductionto the ideaofamultiplicityof ...
... feminist theatre studies,SusanBassnett's work is most substantial: sheoffersthefirst coherent applicationsof semiotic theorytowomen'stheatre (as opposedto feminist ... critics arecompared by way ofintroductionto the ideaofamultiplicityof ...
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... feminist theatre is'alternative theatre' and is located on the 'fringe'. Some readersmaynot be familiar with the ... critics of the 'old school'). There is not one 'new school'of academic thinking, noroftheatre criticism.There ...
... feminist theatre is'alternative theatre' and is located on the 'fringe'. Some readersmaynot be familiar with the ... critics of the 'old school'). There is not one 'new school'of academic thinking, noroftheatre criticism.There ...
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... critics alike—have done so in different ways,in different contexts, for different reasons,and crucially, indifferent languages (even writings in Englishmay use differentvocabularies anddialects). Thus, theissue ofvaluingis critical ...
... critics alike—have done so in different ways,in different contexts, for different reasons,and crucially, indifferent languages (even writings in Englishmay use differentvocabularies anddialects). Thus, theissue ofvaluingis critical ...
Contents
Section 17 | lv |
Section 18 | lvii |
Section 19 | lxiii |
Section 20 | lxxxiii |
Section 21 | xcv |
Section 22 | xcvi |
Section 23 | ci |
Section 24 | cviii |
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Section 10 | xxxiii |
Section 11 | xliv |
Section 12 | lxi |
Section 13 | lxxix |
Section 14 | lxxxii |
Section 15 | c |
Section 16 | c |
Section 25 | 5 |
Section 26 | 4 |
Section 27 | 8 |
Section 28 | 41 |
Section 29 | 526 |
Section 30 | 357 |
Section 31 | 180 |
Section 32 | 182 |
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