
Restaging Feminisms
Elaine Aston(Author)
Palgrave Pivot (Publisher)
Published on 19. May 2020
Book
Hardback
VII, 132 pages
978-3-030-40588-5 (ISBN)
Description
Restaging Feminisms
offers a re-encounter with the tripartite modelling of liberal, radical, and socialist feminisms foundational to establishing feminist approaches to theatre. This lucid account of past-present connections to the staging of feminism assesses the legacies and renewals of all three feminist dynamics as they intersect with austerity Britain, the Weinstein watershed, and the #MeToo movement. Feminist politics, concepts, and the role of affect in the making of political attachments inform an approach that values understanding feminism's past as critical to reanimating and restaging socially progressive, feminist futures. The volume includes case studies of productions staged between 2016 and 2019: Caryl Churchill's
Escaped Alone
; David Greig's version of
The Suppliant Women
; Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's
Emilia
; Nina Raine's
Consent
; Townsend Theatre's
We Are The Lions Mr Manager
; and Laura Wade's
Home, I'm Darling
.
From an author with a pioneering and thirty-year-long commitment to the study of feminism and British theatre, Restaging Feminisms is for an intergenerational feminist-theatre readership: for those who are discovering relations between feminism and theatre for the first time and those re-encountering the feminist dynamics and their renewed resonance on the contemporary British stage.
From an author with a pioneering and thirty-year-long commitment to the study of feminism and British theatre, Restaging Feminisms is for an intergenerational feminist-theatre readership: for those who are discovering relations between feminism and theatre for the first time and those re-encountering the feminist dynamics and their renewed resonance on the contemporary British stage.
More details
Edition
2020 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
VII, 132 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-40588-5 (9783030405885)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-40589-2
Schweitzer Classification
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Elaine Aston
Restaging Feminisms
E-Book
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1st Edition
Palgrave Pivot
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Person
Elaine Aston holds the Departmental Chair of Theatre at Lancaster University, UK. She has published numerous books and articles on feminism and theatre. A former editor of
Theatre Research International
, she is the elected President of the International Federation of Theatre Research (2019-23).
Content
1. Restaging Feminisms.- 2. Reviewing the Drama of Liberal Feminism .- 3. Acting Together: A Chorus of Radical-Feminist Protest.- 4. Towards the Great Moving Left Show? Recitals of Socialist Feminism.