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Author:

Cobrin, Pamela, 1967-

Title:

From winning the vote to directing on Broadway : the emergence of women on the New York stage, 1880-1927 / Pamela Cobrin.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women in the theater--United States--History.
Women--United States--History.--History.
Theater and society--United States--History--19th century.
Theater and society--United States--History--20th century.
Feminism and theater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The enemy must be converted through his eyes: suffragist parades as transformational theater -- Mary Shaw's Gamut club: an experiment in American women's activism -- The Provincetown playhouse: home for wayward radical women -- The neighborhood playhouse: collectivity as a feminist tactic -- The professional as the political: women directors in commercial theater.

Summary:

"This book examines the radical change women underwent - and facilitated - from 1880 to 1927, by looking at five case studies of feminist performance: suffragist parades; feminist drama groups; the Gamut Club; the Provincetown Players; the Neighborhood Playhouse; and four successful female Broadway directors - Lillian Trimble Bradley, Rachel Crothers, Edith Ellis, and Minne Maddem Fikse. Viewed collectively, the chapters create an overarching argument as to the nature of firstwave feminist performance."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0874130581 (alk. paper)
9780874130584 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)269455993

LCCN:

2008048341

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)