Carry on Understudies

Theatre and Sexual Politics
1. Auflage 1986
ISBN: 978-0-415-11955-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

`one hell of a seminal read. Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around gender and politics. illuminating, insightful, perceptive.' - Women's Review

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wandor, Michelene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Contexts 2 Cross-dressing, sexual representation and the sexual division of labour in theatre 3 The first phase: 1969–73, 4 The second phase: 1973–7, 5 The third phase: from 1977, 6 The skilled process 7 Finding a voice: women playwrights and theatre 8 Political dynamics: the feminisms 9 Radical plays before 1968: the crisis of virility, the ‘feminine’ and the ‘female’ 10 Men playwrights in the 1970s 11 The fourth phase: women playwrights in the 1970s and early 1980s 12 Conclusions and the future; Appendix: All Het Up in Bradford by Noel Greig

Über Autor(innen)

Michelene Wandor is a poet, playwright and critic. She was Poetry Editor and a regular theatre reviewer for Time Out magazine (1971–82), and she has written extensively for and about theatre and radio in Britain.