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. |
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... stages ofthis project. Internationally, Barbara Lanati andTeatro Settimo inTurin, Susan Bennett and KathleenForeman in Calgary, Tracy Davis inChicago, Vaskresia Vicharova and Mariana Tosheva inSofia, Bulgaria allhelped to open out the ...
... stages ofthis project. Internationally, Barbara Lanati andTeatro Settimo inTurin, Susan Bennett and KathleenForeman in Calgary, Tracy Davis inChicago, Vaskresia Vicharova and Mariana Tosheva inSofia, Bulgaria allhelped to open out the ...
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... stages ofthe project, asdid theCambridge Womenand Literatureand Graduate Drama Seminars.The JudithE.Wilson Fundof the Cambridge University Faculty of English supported numerous aspects oftheoverall project, chiefly bysponsoring the ...
... stages ofthe project, asdid theCambridge Womenand Literatureand Graduate Drama Seminars.The JudithE.Wilson Fundof the Cambridge University Faculty of English supported numerous aspects oftheoverall project, chiefly bysponsoring the ...
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... stage? We had hopedthat all of those messages and all of our politics would havebecome apparentinten years. Feminism is being presented, as if it were identifiable. It's like there's ten commandments and you believein allof themandso I ...
... stage? We had hopedthat all of those messages and all of our politics would havebecome apparentinten years. Feminism is being presented, as if it were identifiable. It's like there's ten commandments and you believein allof themandso I ...
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... stage directions and highlighted in fluorescent shades of yellow and green. While thisprojectbegan asthe study ofanunderrecognized field,it becamesomething more:a study of the factors which make certain subjects 'marketable', if not ...
... stage directions and highlighted in fluorescent shades of yellow and green. While thisprojectbegan asthe study ofanunderrecognized field,it becamesomething more:a study of the factors which make certain subjects 'marketable', if not ...
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... stage roles for women, a concern withthegenderroles in society, exploration of the texture of women's worlds and an urge towards the politicizationofsexuality'. 11 In this book, I argue that it is possible to take nothing for granted ...
... stage roles for women, a concern withthegenderroles in society, exploration of the texture of women's worlds and an urge towards the politicizationofsexuality'. 11 In this book, I argue that it is possible to take nothing for granted ...
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 |
xxiv | |
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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