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Strip Show
Performances of Gender and Desire
Series: Gender in Performance
This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows. It particularly focuses on the contradictory sex roles, cultural positions, and performance practices of 'straight' strip shows during their second heyday in the early 1990s.Katherine...
Published November 15th 2001 by Routledge
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The Changing Room
Sex, Drag and Theatre
Series: Gender in Performance
The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet * the...
Published May 22nd 2000 by Routledge
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West End Women
Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962
Series: Gender in Performance
Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962. It documents a dynamic era of social and theatrical history, analysing the transformations that occurred in the theatre and the lives of...
Published November 21st 1996 by Routledge
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Women In Russian Theatre
The Actress in the Silver Age
Series: Gender in Performance
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Published October 10th 1996 by Routledge
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Feminist Theatres in the USA
Staging Women's Experience
Series: Gender in Performance
Feminist Theaters in the USA is a fresh, informative portrait of a key era in feminist and theater history It is vital reading for feminist students, theater historians and theater practitioners. Their continued movement forward will be challenged and enriched by this timely look back at the trials...
Published December 7th 1995 by Routledge
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Getting Into the Act
Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829
Series: Gender in Performance
Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Ellen Donkin relates fascinating, disturbing tales about the male theatre managers to whom they were...
Published September 21st 1995 by Routledge
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As She Likes It
Shakespeare's Unruly Women
Series: Gender in Performance
As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how...
Published July 21st 1994 by Routledge
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Contemporary Feminist Theatres
To Each Her Own
Series: Gender in Performance
Contemporary 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,...
Published March 25th 1993 by Routledge
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Actresses as Working Women
Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture
Series: Gender in Performance
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and...
Published June 27th 1991 by Routledge
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