Gender and Realism in Plays and Performances by Women

Download or read book Gender and Realism in Plays and Performances by Women written by Leslie Crawford Hurley and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Realism in Plays and Performances by Women addresses gender issues and the «creating» of gender in contemporary theatre (1970s-1990s) by British and American women. This book's foci are the biological-essentialism vision of the gender category, Woman, as well as the deconstruction of gender as presented in plays and performance art by women. Artists discussed include Beth Henley, Sarah Daniels, Pam Gems, Jane Chambers, Peggy Shaw, and Holly Hughes.