A good night out for the girls : popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance
- Title
- A good night out for the girls : popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance / Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris.
- Published by
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- viii, 218 pages; 23 cm.
- Series statement
- Performance interventions
- Uniform title
- Performance interventions.
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction: "a good night out for the girls" -- Jam and Jerusalem, sentimentality and feminism: calendar girls -- Roaring women and class acts: the naked truth and the Chippendales' ultimate girls night out -- Age liberation: Susan Boyle, "Grumpy old women" and Virginia Ironside's monologues -- Once more with feeling: Joanna Murray-Smith's The female of the species and Nic Green's trilogy -- Work, family, romance and the utopian sensibilities of the chick megamusical Mamma Mia! -- The ghosts of new burlesque -- Entertaining others: Shappi Khorsandi and Andi Osho -- "Are we there yet?": final reflections & Marisa Carnesky's Ghost train.
- Call number
- MWET 13-5357
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-205) and index.
- Author
- Aston, Elaine.
- Title
- A good night out for the girls : popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance / Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- Performance interventions
- Performance interventions.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-205) and index.
- Added author
- Harris, Geraldine (Geraldine Mary)
- LCCN
- 2012036828
- Other standard identifier
- 40021781873
- ISBN
- 9780230281035
- 0230281036
- Research call number
- MWET 13-5357