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Taking Center Stage
Janet Brown
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Description for Taking Center Stage
Hardback. Successor to the author's ground-breaking Feminist Drama (1979), this book describes the evolution of contemporary American feminist thought since that volume appeared and traces its themes in a cross-section of contemporary plays. Num Pages: 177 pages, Plans transparencies :Bibliography: p157-166. - Includes index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Successor to the author's ground-breaking Feminist Drama (1979; hailed by CHOICE as "... an admirable example of the new feminist scholarship"), this new book describes the evolution of contemporary American feminist thought since that volume appeared and traces its themes in a cross-section of contemporary plays. Brown develops new and more encompassing definitions of feminism and feminist drama applicable to the wealth of theory and drama that has appeared since 1979. Giving voice to silenced women, glorifying those defined by the patriarchy as marginal, and propounding a feminist ethic based on respect for the environmental context and for the concrete, ... Read more
Successor to the author's ground-breaking Feminist Drama (1979; hailed by CHOICE as "... an admirable example of the new feminist scholarship"), this new book describes the evolution of contemporary American feminist thought since that volume appeared and traces its themes in a cross-section of contemporary plays. Brown develops new and more encompassing definitions of feminism and feminist drama applicable to the wealth of theory and drama that has appeared since 1979. Giving voice to silenced women, glorifying those defined by the patriarchy as marginal, and propounding a feminist ethic based on respect for the environmental context and for the concrete, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
Number of Pages
177
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810824485
SKU
V9780810824485
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Ref
99-15
About Janet Brown
Janet Brown (PhD, speech and dramatic arts, University of Missouri) is the author of Feminist Drama (Scarecrow, 1979) as well as numerous articles published in journals and anthologies. She directed the University of Hartford theatre arts program for six years before becoming the founding director of the Greater Hartford Academy of Performing Arts, a successful magnet program for the region's ... Read more
Reviews for Taking Center Stage
...helpful and friendly....orderly, clear, and succinct prose...
Communication Quarterly
A smashing second act for Brown.
Women Library Workers Journal
...impressive in readability and clarity, and in a thoroughness that belies its small size. This slim text is itself worthy of taking center stage.
CHOICE
Communication Quarterly
A smashing second act for Brown.
Women Library Workers Journal
...impressive in readability and clarity, and in a thoroughness that belies its small size. This slim text is itself worthy of taking center stage.
CHOICE