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Ecology And Feminism In Performance - Composting Histories 1962-2020

by Cara Berger

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 This book provides the first extensive history of feminism and ecology in performance. It proposes â€˜compostingâ€™ as a new method for writing feminist history, re-reading canonical artists and analysing contemporary practices to show how performance challenges ecocidal culture from 1962 to the present. -- .
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Ecology And Feminism In Performance - Composting Histories 1962â€“2020

by Cara Berger

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 This book provides the first extensive history of feminism and ecology in performance. It proposes â€˜compostingâ€™ as a new method for writing feminist history, re-reading canonical artists and analysing contemporary practices to show how performance challenges ecocidal culture from 1962 to the present. -- .
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Victorian Touring Actresses - Crossing Boundaries And Negotiating The Cultural Landscape

by Janice Norwood

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 Victorian touring actresses provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century theatre and the careers of previously neglected British women who had once starred at home and abroad. Chapters explore debuts, establishing a name, working life in the UK, touring North America, long-distance colonial touring, management, offstage life and ageing. -- .
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Victorian Touring Actresses - Crossing Boundaries And Negotiating The Cultural Landscape

by Janice Norwood

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 Victorian touring actresses provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century theatre and the careers of previously neglected British women who had once starred at home and abroad. Chapters explore debuts, establishing a name, working life in the UK, touring North America, long-distance colonial touring, management, offstage life and ageing. -- .
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Kitty Marion - Actor And Activist

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 This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marionâ€™s story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of womenâ€™s lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. -- .
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Stage Rights! - The Actressesâ€™ Franchise League, Activism And Politics 1908â€“58

by Naomi Paxton

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 Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of political and feminist networks in twentieth century theatre. -- .
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Stage Women, 1900â€“50 - Female Theatre Workers And Professional Practice

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 This book presents cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. It explore womenâ€™s networks of professional practice in the performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on womenâ€™s sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. -- .
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Treading The Bawds - Actresses And Playwrights On The Late Stuart Stage

by Gilli Bush-Bailey

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 Treading the bawds breaks the traditional boundaries that have separated the histories of the first actresses and the early female playwright. This is a story of collaboration and influence, played out on the seventeenth-century London stage as womenâ€™s words and womenâ€™s bodies come together for the first time. -- .
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Female Performance Practice On The Fin-De-Siecle Popular Stages Of London And Paris - Experiment And Advertisement

by Catherine Hindson

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 This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, LoÃ¯e Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .
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Plays And Performance Texts By Women 1880â€“1930 - An Anthology Of Plays By British And American Women From The Modernist Period

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 An exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers. -- .
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Treading The Bawds - Actresses And Playwrights On The Late Stuart Stage

by Gilli Bush-Bailey

27,03€ + 10% CARD

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 Treading the bawds breaks the traditional boundaries that have separated the histories of the first actresses and the early female playwright. This is a story of collaboration and influence, played out on the seventeenth-century London stage as womenâ€™s words and womenâ€™s bodies come together for the first time. -- .
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Women, Theatre And Performance - New Histories, New Historiographies

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 This volume of essays addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of "hidden" histories of women performers. It resituates women's creative contribution within theatre and cultural hisotry and seeks to challegne orthodox readings of history and text.
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Comrades In Conflict - Labour, The Trade Unions And 1969'S In Place Of Strife

by Peter Dorey

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 This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Governmentâ€™s 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions. Using archival sources, this book explains how this attempt provoked strong opposition in the Party, and from the unions, to the extent that it was abandoned in a humiliating climb-down. -- .
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Kitty Marion - Actor And Activist

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 This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marionâ€™s story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of womenâ€™s lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. -- .
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Living Gluten-Free For Dummies,

by Danna Korn e Margaret Clough

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 The easy way to live without wheat, barley, oats, rye, and other sources of gluten There's more to living gluten-free than just cutting it out of your diet.
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God'S Only Daughter - Spenser'S Una As The Invisible Church

by Kathryn Walls

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 The first full-length study to be devoted to Una, the beleaguered but ultimately triumphant heroine of Book One of The Faerie Queene -- .
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Female Performance Practice On The Fin-De-Siecle Popular Stages Of London And Paris - Experiment And Advertisement

by Catherine Hindson

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 This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, LoÃ¯e Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .

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