Stage women, 1900–50

Stage women, 1900–50
Author: Maggie B. Gale
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2019-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526136872

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women’s networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: ‘Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm’ looks at the relationship between women’s work – on and off stage – and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. ‘Women and popular performance’ focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.

Plays by American Women, 1900-1930

Plays by American Women, 1900-1930
Author: Judith E. Barlow
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781557830081

Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s
Author: Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134802374

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.

Plays by American Women, 1930-1960

Plays by American Women, 1930-1960
Author: Judith E. Barlow
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Offers a collection of classic plays by such women writers as Lillian Hellman, Gertrude Stein, Alice Childress, and Clare Boothe.

Plays by Early American Women, 1775-1850

Plays by Early American Women, 1775-1850
Author: Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1995
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780472065981

Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.

Auto/Biography and Identity

Auto/Biography and Identity
Author: Maggie B B. Gale
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780719063329

Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Men Who Hate Women

Men Who Hate Women
Author: Laura Bates
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1728236258

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back. Women's rights activist Laura Bates wrote this book as someone who has been the target of many hate-fueled misogynistic attacks online. At first, the vitriol seemed to be the work of a small handful of individual men... but over time, the volume and consistency of the attacks hinted at something bigger and more ominous. As Bates went undercover into the corners of the internet, she found an unseen, organized movement of thousands of anonymous men wishing violence (and worse) upon women. In the book, Bates explores: Extreme communities like incels, pick-up artists, MGTOW, Men's Rights Activists and more The hateful, toxic rhetoric used by these groups How this movement connects to other extremist movements like white supremacy How young boys are targeted and slowly drawn in Where this ideology shows up in our everyday lives in mainstream media, our playgrounds, and our government By turns fascinating and horrifying, Men Who Hate Women is a broad, unflinching account of the deep current of loathing toward women and anti-feminism that underpins our society and is a must-read for parents, educators, and anyone who believes in equality for women. Praise for Men Who Hate Women: "Laura Bates is showing us the path to both intimate and global survival."—Gloria Steinem "Well-researched and meticulously documented, Bates's book on the power and danger of masculinity should be required reading for us all."—Library Journal "Men Who Hate Women has the power to spark social change."—Sunday Times

American Women Writers, 1900-1945

American Women Writers, 1900-1945
Author: Laurie Champion
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2000-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313032556

Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons and not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover for the first time neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses a particular author's biography, her major works and themes, and the critical response to her writings. The entries close with extensive primary and secondary bibliographies, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading. The period surveyed by this reference is rich and diverse. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, two major artistic movements, occurred between 1900 and 1945, and the entries included here demonstrate the significant contributions women made to these movements. The volume as a whole strives to reflect the diversity of American culture and includes entries for African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women. It includes well known writers such as Willa Cather and Eudora Welty, along with more neglected ones such as Anita Scott Coleman and Sui Sin Far.

Shoulder to Shoulder

Shoulder to Shoulder
Author: Midge Mackenzie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1975
Genre: Suffragists
ISBN:

The history of the militant suffragettes.