From winning the vote to directing on Broadway : the emergence of women on the New York stage, 1880-1927 /
Cobrin, Pamela,1967-
Newark : University of Delaware Press,
c2009.
"This book examines the radical change women underwent - and facilitated - from 1880 to 1927, by looking at five case studies of feminist performance: suffragist parades; feminist drama groups; the Gamut Club; the Provincetown Players; the Neighborhood Playhouse; and four successful female Broadway directors - Lillian Trimble Bradley, Rachel Crothers, Edith Ellis, and Minne Maddem Fikse. Viewed collectively, the chapters create an overarching argument as to the nature of firstwave feminist performance."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The enemy must be converted through his eyes: suffragist parades as transformational theater -- Mary Shaw's Gamut club: an experiment in American women's activism -- The Provincetown playhouse: home for wayward radical women -- The neighborhood playhouse: collectivity as a feminist tactic -- The professional as the political: women directors in commercial theater.
"This book examines the radical change women underwent - and facilitated - from 1880 to 1927, by looking at five case studies of feminist performance: suffragist parades; feminist drama groups; the Gamut Club; the Provincetown Players; the Neighborhood Playhouse; and four successful female Broadway directors - Lillian Trimble Bradley, Rachel Crothers, Edith Ellis, and Minne Maddem Fikse. Viewed collectively, the chapters create an overarching argument as to the nature of firstwave feminist performance."--BOOK JACKET.
Women in the theater
Women
Theater and society
Theater and society
Feminism and theater.