A sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance : on and beyond the stage /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Series: | Worlds of performance.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: History. Art versus business: the role of women in American theatre / Helen Krich Chinoy
- Women for women / Charlotte Rea
- The WOW cafe / Alisa Solomon
- Notes on lesbian theatre / Emily L. Sisley
- Women at the helm: in leadership posts once reserved for men, they're challenging our assumptions about sex and power / Misha Berson
- Part II: Theory. Bearing witness: Anna Deavere Smith from community to theatre to mass media / Carol Martin
- In defense of the discourse: materialist feminism, postmodernism, poststucturalism ... and theory / Jill Dolan
- Motherhood according to Karen Finley: The Theory of total blame / Lynda Hart
- Brechtian theory/feminist theory: toward a gestic feminist criticism / Elin Diamond
- Reading past the heterosexual imperative: Dress suits to hire / Kate Davy
- Feminist theory, poststructuralism, and performance / Peggy Phelan
- Part III: Interviews. Anna Deavere Smith: the word becomes you / Carol Martin
- Robbie McCauley: Obsessing in public / Vivian Patraka
- Holly Hughes: polymorphous perversity and the lesbian scientist / Rebecca Schneider
- Karen Finley: a constant state of becoming / Richard Schechner
- Part IV: Texts. Dress suits to hire / Holly Hughes, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw
- The Constant state of desire / Karen Finley.