Theatre and Feminism

by Kim Solga

Overview

Theatre & Feminism tells the story of the movement known as feminist performance theory. It explores key debates from its 40-year history, engages with the work of groundbreaking thinkers including Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, Peggy Phelan and Elaine Aston, and includes case studies of recent performances by established and emerging feminist artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137463005
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/03/2015
Series:	Theatre And , #18
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Kim Solga is Associate Professor of English and Writing Studies and a founding instructor on the Theatre Studies Major and Minor program at Western University, Canada. She is the author of Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance, editor of A Cultural History of Theatre: The Modern Age, and co-editor of Performance and the City and Performance and the Global City.
Kim Solga is Associate Professor of English and Writing Studies and a founding instructor on the Theatre Studies Major and Minor program at Western University, Canada. She is the author of Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance, editor of A Cultural History of Theatre: The Modern Age, and co-editor of Performance and the City and Performance and the Global City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Series editors' preface
Feminism Now: The Paradox of 'Post'
Three Ways to Understand a Movement
Looking/Watching/Spectating
Being versus Acting
Hope and Loss
Conclusion: On Aging
Further Reading
Index.