Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism

Glenn, Susan A.

ISBN 10: 0674003330 / ISBN 13: 9780674003330

Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2000

x, 294p., illus., very good condition in like dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Glenn on the free front endpaper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 300102

Inhaltsangabe:

When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term "feminism" had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to centre stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent and sexually expressive "New Women". "Female Spectacle" reveals the theatre to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theatre also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-advertising to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows how and why theatre mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of ...
Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers