Staging Family - Domestic Deceptions of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Actresses

Informationen zum Autor Nan Mullenneaux is a lecturer in international writing in Duke University’s Thompson Writing Program and Duke Kunshan University.   Klappentext Nan Mullenneaux is a lecturer in international writing in Duke University’s Thompson Writing Program and Duke Kunshan University. ¿ Zusammenfassung Focuses on the personal and professional lives of more than sixty women who! despite their diverse backgrounds! each made complex conscious and unconscious compromises to create profit and power. This book informs contemporary questions of how women juggle professional and personal responsibilities - achieving success in spite of gender constraints and societal expectations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations     Acknowledgments     Introduction: The Ax and the Faint     1. Opportunity or Necessity?     2. Trials and Vicissitudes     3. Domesticating Mobility and Nationalizing Transnationalism     4. Private Family, Public Persona, and National Identity     5. Embodying America     6. Reinventing the Private Family     7. Acting Couples versus Acting Coupled     8. Domestic Differences     9. Managing Motherhood     10. Later Life and Legacies     Appendix: Biographies of Actresses     Notes     Bibliography     Index

Product details

• Authors: Nan Mullenneaux
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780803284623
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8462-3
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous