"From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women’s theatre in Canada questioned and critiqued the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. While still seduced by an abiding belief in the truth of separate spheres that mark out the hier...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Bird, Kym 1956- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1876-1920 Drama Dramatikerin Kanada Women in literature Women in the theater / Canada / History / 19th century Women in the theater / Canada / History / 20th century Canadian drama (English) / Women authors Canadian drama (English) / 19th century Canadian drama (English) / 20th century Women in the theater Canada 1800-1999 History Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women’s theatre in Canada questioned and critiqued the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. While still seduced by an abiding belief in the truth of separate spheres that mark out the hierarchies of men’s and women’s roles, these plays, in a variety of genres, challenged conventional notions of the private and public in the service of women’s rights and social reform. Blowing up the Skirt of History revives ten theatrical comedies that staged the promise of social change, empowered a counterpublic of politically vocal and socially powerful women’s voices, and put women’s artistic work and lives in the spotlight. When middle- and upper-class women participated in the theatre – as audience members, as playwrights, and as producers – they in turn signalled its authenticity and acceptability. Informed by feminist materialism and public sphere theory as categories of reclamation and analysis, the book’s general introduction situates the plays in Canadian women’s history, politics, ideologies of gender, theatrical modernism, colonialism, and a newly industrializing nation. Introductions to each work explore the playwrights’ biographies, their political activity, and their literary output. Additionally they recount each play’s production history and historicize the ways in which it intervenes in the ideologies of the age. Blowing up the Skirt of History reconstructs a long-overlooked corpus of early dramatic writing and restores it to Canadian theatrical history. These plays, and others like them, are exemplars of the types of theatre that became increasingly appropriate to and supportive of middle- and upper-class Anglo-Canadian women’s culture over the turn of the twentieth century."--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xiv, 407 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts
ISBN:	9780228003311 9780228003328