From winning the vote to directing on Broadway : the emergence of women on the New York stage, 1880-1927 /

"This book examines the radical change women underwent - and facilitated - from 1880 to 1927, by looking at five case studies of feminist performance: suffragist parades; feminist drama groups; the Gamut Club; the Provincetown Players; the Neighborhood Playhouse; and four successful female Broa...

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Main Author: Cobrin, Pamela, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2009.
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245 1 0 |a From winning the vote to directing on Broadway :  |b the emergence of women on the New York stage, 1880-1927 /  |c Pamela Cobrin. 
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300 |a 243 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-233) and index. 
505 0 |a The enemy must be converted through his eyes: suffragist parades as transformational theater -- Mary Shaw's Gamut club: an experiment in American women's activism -- The Provincetown playhouse: home for wayward radical women -- The neighborhood playhouse: collectivity as a feminist tactic -- The professional as the political: women directors in commercial theater. 
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