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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kate dorney”
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  • Winsome Pinnock

    by Kate Dorney ...
    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade long career chronicling the lives of Black people, and Black women in particular, in Britain.It offers a detailed and sustained analysis of Pinnock’s plays, attending to their formal, aesthetic and thematic qualities as well as in-depth examination of the socio-cultural and political ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Stage women, 1900–50

    Female theatre workers and professional practice

    Edited by Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney ...
    Series series Women, Theatre and Performance
    This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women’s networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Played in Britain

    Modern Theatre in 100 Plays

    by Kate Dorney, Frances Gray, Richard Griffiths ...
    Series series Plays and Playwrights
    Published in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Musuem, Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date. Fully illustrated with photos from the V&A's collections and featuring a foreword by Richard Griffiths O.B.E., the book provides a sumptuous treat for theatre-lovers. It was awarded the 2014 David Bradby Award for research by ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • The Art of Feminism

    Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017

    by Helena Reckitt, Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson ...
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  • Why Women Read Fiction

    The Stories of Our Lives

    by Helen Taylor ...
    Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as parents, teachers, and librarians--the glue for a literate society. Women treasure the chance to read alone, but have also gregariously ... Read more

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  • Picturing Canada

    A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing

    by Judith Saltman, Gail Edwards ...
    The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Canadian identity, as seen through the lens of children's publishing over two centuries.Gail Edwards ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Sex, Time and Place

    Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present

    Edited by Dr. Simon Avery, Katherine M. Graham ...
    Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives – including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies – this collection asks new questions, widens debates and opens new subject terrain.Featuring essays from an international range of ... Read more

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  • Sisterhood and After

    An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present

    by Margaretta Jolly ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender transformation. Oral history testimonies power the work, tracing the arc of a feminist life from 1950s girlhoods to late life activism today. Peppered with personal stories, the book casts new light on feminist critiques of ... Read more

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  • The New Scottish Cinema

    by Jonathan Murray ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    From a near standing start in the 1970s, the emergence and expansion of an aesthetically and culturally distinctive Scottish cinema proved to be one of the most significant developments within late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century British film culture. Individual Scottish films and filmmakers have attracted notable amounts of critical attention as a result. The New Scottish Cinema, however ... Read more

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  • Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl

    by Lynette Goddard ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain, from its original production at the Royal Court in 1958, to the National Theatre in 2012. It depicts the lives of a black ... Read more

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  • Love Lives

    From Cinderella to Frozen

    by Carol Dyhouse ...
    The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been re-shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr Right, and happy endings... Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending, a solution to life's problems. But over the next fifty years ... Read more

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