Carry on Understudies - Theatre and Sexual Politics

`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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

`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

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`This excellent book ... recognizes that theatre is a barometer of the social climate and shows how the battles that have raged around sexuality throughout this century have been reflected on its stage ... It's a must. Buy it.' - Noel Greig, Gay Times

Product details

• Authors: Michelene Wandor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138179981
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17998-1
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Women Artists, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Performance Art, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls