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Author(s): Aston, Elaine
ISBN(s): 9780415087698, 0415087694
Edition: 1 edition
File Details: PDF, 1.30 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415087694 
ISBN 13: 9780415087698
Author: Elaine Aston

At last an accessible and intelligent introduction to the energising and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre. In this clear and enlightening book, Aston discusses wide-ranging theoretical topics and provides case studies including: * Feminism and theatre history * `M/Othering the self’: French feminist theory and theatre * Black women: shaping feminist theatre * Performing gender: a materialist practice * Colonial landscapes Feminist thought is changing the way theatre is taught and practised. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre is compulsory reading for anyone who requires a precise, insightful and up-to-date guide to this dynamic field of study.

An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre 1st Table of contents:

1. Background: Feminism and Theatre Studies

Introduction

  • The Project

Part I: Feminist Approaches to Theatre

2. Finding a Tradition: Feminism and Theatre History

  • ‘Hidden from History’

  • Deconstructing the Canon

  • The ‘Lost’ Female Tradition

3. Feminist Theories of Representation: The Case Against Realism

  • Feminism and Lacan

  • Feminism, Realism, and Narratives of Desire

  • The Gaze

4. M/Othering the Self: French Feminist Theory and Theatre

  • Cixous

  • Irigaray

  • Kristeva

5. Staging Feminism(s)

  • Feminist Theatre Groups: Theory and Practice

  • Towards a Feminist Aesthetics?

6. Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theatre

  • Ain’t I a Woman

  • White ‘Spaces’: Black Women

  • Black Identities and Black Companies

  • Claiming a ‘Space’: Black Women Performance Poets

7. Performing Gender: A Materialist Practice

  • Gender Theory

  • Alienating Gender

  • Workshopping Gender

  • Lesbian Theatre

Part II: Case Studies

8. The ‘Prisonhouse of Criticism’: Susan Glaspell

  • The ‘Lost’ Dramatist

  • Woman Dramatist as Professional Writer

  • The Verge

  • O’Neill’s Men and Glaspell’s Women: Feminist Readings

9. ‘Bodily Harm’

  • Steaming

  • Heresies

  • Masterpieces

10. Colonial Landscapes

  • I Is a Long Memoried Woman: Overview and Structure

  • The Black Diaspora

  • Colonizing the Body

  • Black Culture / Black History

  • The Slave-Mother

11. Performing Romantic Criticism: Case Study and Conclusion

  • Performing Feminist Criticism

  • Blood and Ice

  • Breathless

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