Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe - The Other White Woman

Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe explores a distinctive form of womanhood that emerged in post-World War II Eastern Europe, offering an alternative to Western typologies.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Chapter 1. Myself as bait: An introduction
Chapter 2. Female theatre makers under surveillance: Gender issues in the archives of secret police
Chapter 3. If you had only spoken . . .: Counter-narratives and marginalised histories of women before and after 1989
Chapter 4. Cross-dressing as resistance under dictatorship: The case of Milu¿¿ Gheorghiu
Chapter 5. A little inferno: The reinforcement of women's stereotyped roles through theatre repertories yesterday and today
Chapter 6. Witnesses of history: The women behind great men on stage: Danuta Wä¿sa, Raisa Gorbachev, Elena Ceau¿escu
Chapter 7. 'Divorcing' Stanislavski to 'marry' Brecht: Brechtian strategies in productions authored by women theatre makers in Eastern Europe
Chapter 8. The Cinderella Complex: Five new plays from post socialist Eastern Europe
Chapter 9. Re-structuring the self: Stories of exile, displacement, the alienation effect and its creative power on- and off-stage
Chapter 10. The feminist geopolitical gap: Can it be closed on-stage?
Index

Info autore

Cristina Modreanu is a theatre critic, curator and researcher at the University of the Arts in Târgu-Mure¿, Romania. Holding a PhD in theatre studies from National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, she is a Fulbright Alumna and the author of six books on Romanian theatre, including A History of Romanian Theatre from Communism to Capitalism (Routledge, 2020).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Cristina Modreanu
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032824529
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3282452-9
• Pagine: 118
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, ART / Women Artists, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Performance Art, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, ART / European / General, Theatre;Eastern European Theatre