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  • No Mother, No Future

    Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss

    by Kailin Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    No Mother, No Future investigates how theatre and performance use pregnancy loss to represent a lost future. Spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book analyzes performances that challenge dominant cultural scripts linking motherhood with futurity and nationhood in Canada and the United States.Combining intersectional feminism with theories of reproductive justice and ... Read more

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  • Slings & Arrows

    Adapting Shakespeare in Theatre and Television

    Canadian television comedy Slings & Arrows shows the backstage lives of a Shakespearean theatre company. Finding wild success in Canada and abroad, the series won twenty-two television awards, received rave reviews in the United States, and the Brazilian version, Som e Fúria, earned audiences of eighteen million viewers. This book not only asks but also answers the question, why Shakespeare today ... Read more

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  • Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre

    by Kailin Wright ...
    In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In ... Read more

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  • The God of Gods: A Canadian Play

    A Critical Edition

    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Carroll Aikins’s play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in 1927. This critical edition not only revives the work for readers and scholars alike, it also provides historical context for Aikins’s often overlooked contributions to theatre in the 1920s and presents research on the different staging techniques in the play’s productions.Much of the play’s ... Read more

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  • Black Feminist Thought, 30th Anniversary Edition

    Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

    In the first major update to this classic book in many years, Collins traces the history and contours of Black women’s ideas and actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that fosters Black women’s survival, persistence, and success against the odds. Through meticulous research that synthesizes the important intellectual work done by Black women, Collins’s timely update ... Read more

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  • Posthuman Feminism

    In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the struggle: these are very feminist times. But how do these and other movements relate to the contemporary posthuman condition?In this important new book, Rosi Braidotti examines the implications of the posthuman turn for feminist theory and practice. ... Read more

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  • Breadwinning Daughters

    Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

    As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley ... Read more

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  • A Black Queer History of the United States

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    **The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present dayGender and sexual expression have always been part of the Black freedom struggle**In this latest book in Beacon’s award-winning ReVisioning History series, Professors C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost unearth the often overlooked history of the Black queer ... Read more

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  • Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 3rd Edition

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  • There Goes the Gayborhood?

    by Amin Ghaziani ...
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