Fearless femininity by women in American theatre, 1910s-2010s
By: Lynne Greeley
Series: Cambria contemporary global performing arts series; Cambria contemporary global performing arts series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9781604978834
Subjects: Feminism and theater; History; Feminist drama; History and criticism; Women in the theater; Women in the performing arts; Femininity in popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, femininity meets feminism; title: Naked on a box: scripting femininity; title: A song in white and black: May Irwin and Angelina Weld Grimké; title: Silence, absence and transgression: Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell; title: Reluctant mothers: Megan Terry and Bobbi Ausubel; title: Ritual and spirituality: Martha Boesing and Spiderwoman; title: Material desire: feminist theatre, Holly Hughes and a female Faust; title: Emotional creatures and brazen acts: Eve Ensler and Rivka Solomon; title: "Feminism is for everybody": Caridad Svich and Sarah Ruhl; title: Going global: Lynn Nottage and a rainbow of women.