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000321316 1001_ $$aGlenn, Susan A.$$q(Susan Anita)
000321316 24510 $$aFemale spectacle :$$bthe theatrical roots of modern feminism /$$cSusan A. Glenn.
000321316 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2000.
000321316 300__ $$ax, 294 p. :$$billustrations ;$$c23 cm.
000321316 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-273) and index.
000321316 5050_ $$aThe Bernhardt Effect: Self-Advertising and the Age of Spectacle -- 2 Mirth and Girth: The Politics of Comedy -- 3 The Strong Personality: Female Mimics and the Play of the Self -- 4 The Americanization of Salome: Sexuality, Race, and the Careers of the Vulgar Princess -- 5 "The Eyes of the Enemy": Female Activism and the Paradox of Theater -- 6 "Nationally Advertised Legs": How Broadway Invented "The Girls" -- 7 "Like All the Rest of Womankind Only More So": -- The Chorus Girl Problem and American Culture -- Conclusion: -- The Legacy of Female Spectacle -- Abbreviations 226 -- Notes 227 -- Acknowledgments 275 -- Index 277.
000321316 520__ $$aWhen the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term "feminism" had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. Female spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.
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000321316 650_0 $$aFeminism and theater$$zUnited States.
000321316 650_0 $$aActresses$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
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