From winning the vote to directing on Broadway
Subtitle: the emergence of women on the New York stage, 1880-1927
By: Pamela Cobrin.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874130584
Subjects: Women in the theater -- United States -- History.; Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.; Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Feminism and theater.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The enemy must be converted through his eyes: suffragist parades as transformational theater; value: Mary Shaw's Gamut club: an experiment in American women's activism; value: The Provincetown playhouse: home for wayward radical women; value: The neighborhood playhouse: collectivity as a feminist tactic; value: The professional as the political: women directors in commercial theater.