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  • The Feminist Spectator as Critic

    by Jill Dolan ...
    The Feminist Spectator as Criticbroke new ground as one of the pioneering books on feminist spectatorship, encouraging resistant readings to generate feminist meanings in performance. Approaching live spectatorship through a range of interdisciplinary methods, the book has been foundational in theater studies, performance studies, and gender/sexuality/women's studies. This updated and enlarged ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Meeting the Moment

    Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It

    by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Rad Pereira ...
    The experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in their own words.Curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity for performance artists in the United States over the past 55 years. In this work, performers, often unknown beyond their immediate ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Memories of the Revolution

    The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater

    by Jill Dolan ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    The women’s experimental theater space called the WOW Café (Women’s One World) has been a vital part of New York’s downtown theater scene since 1980. Since that time, WOW has provided a place for feminist and particularly lesbian theater artists to create, perform, and witness a cultural revolution. Its renowned alumnae include playwright and actor Lisa Kron, performance artists Holly Hughes and ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Wendy Wasserstein

    by Jill Dolan ...
    Series series Michigan Modern Dramatists
    Playwright Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), author of The Heidi Chronicles, wrote topical, humorous plays addressing relationships among women and their families, taking the temperature of social moments from the 1960s onward to debate women’s rightful place in their professional and personal lives. The playwright’s popular plays continue to be produced on Broadway and in regional theaters around ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Utopia in Performance

    Finding Hope at the Theater

    by Jill Dolan ...
    "Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come."---David Román, University ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    by William Deresiewicz ...
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  • How To Be Gay

    by David M. Halperin ...
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  • Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

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  • Disidentifications

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