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Acting Out: Feminist Performances
Lynda Hart
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Description for Acting Out: Feminist Performances
Paperback. The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga Num Pages: 416 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: DSG; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 666.
For more than two decades, feminist theater troupes, playwrights, comedians, and performance artists have challenged convention, raised consciousness, and provoked controversy. Acting Out is the first collection of essays to critically examine the impact that these performers, from the Women's Experimental Theater in the 1970s to contemporary artists such as Madonna, Karen Finley, Cherrie Moraga, Holly Hughes, and Anna Deavere Smith, have had on Anglo-American culture. These original essays cover a variety of subjects including alternative theater, the diversity of feminist aesthetic strategies, stand-up comedy and the politics of gender, lesbian sexuality, and the antifeminist, anti-abortion demonstrations of Operation Rescue. ... Read more
For more than two decades, feminist theater troupes, playwrights, comedians, and performance artists have challenged convention, raised consciousness, and provoked controversy. Acting Out is the first collection of essays to critically examine the impact that these performers, from the Women's Experimental Theater in the 1970s to contemporary artists such as Madonna, Karen Finley, Cherrie Moraga, Holly Hughes, and Anna Deavere Smith, have had on Anglo-American culture. These original essays cover a variety of subjects including alternative theater, the diversity of feminist aesthetic strategies, stand-up comedy and the politics of gender, lesbian sexuality, and the antifeminist, anti-abortion demonstrations of Operation Rescue. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472064793
SKU
V9780472064793
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About Lynda Hart
Lynda Hart is Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, and editor of Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre. Peggy Phelan is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and author of Unmarked: The Politics of Performance.
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