Feminist Rehearsals
Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico
May Summer Farnsworth
Feminist Rehearsals
Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico
May Summer Farnsworth
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Description
Documents the early stages of feminist theatre in Argentina and Mexico, revealing how various aspects of performance culture - spectator formation, playwriting, professional acting and directing, and dramatic techniques - paralleled political activism and championed the goals of the women’s rights movement.
“This study provides a deserved platform for female artists and activists who continue to exert influence over our understanding of the role of the arts in inspiring a questioning of dominant patriarchal values. Most importantly, it will update everyone’s ideas of what constitutes a theatre history in the dynamic field that is Latin American theatre, especially as it relates to feminist movements across the Americas."—Analola Santana, author, Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theater
"Feminist Rehearsals is an impressive study of the political, sociocultural, and intellectual struggles women playwrights, actresses, and activist pioneers experienced during the early twentieth century in Argentina and Mexico. With a fresh look at feminist theory and practice, Farnsworth offers a crucial analysis regarding the role women had in the public sphere through the lens of theatre and performance studies."—Paola HernÁndez, author, Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives
"An authoritative, nuanced, and thoughtful analysis of the role of feminist political and aesthetic movements in Argentina and Mexico, Feminist Rehearsals offers new insights into how women in the Americas create space for feminist spectatorship in the twentieth century. This book is for anyone engaged in feminist performance scholarship."—E. J. Westlake, Ohio State University
May Summer Farnsworth is professor of Spanish and Hispanic studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is coeditor of a two-volume anthology of feminist plays by women in Latin America, Escrito por Mujeres. She lives in Geneva, New York.
“This study provides a deserved platform for female artists and activists who continue to exert influence over our understanding of the role of the arts in inspiring a questioning of dominant patriarchal values. Most importantly, it will update everyone’s ideas of what constitutes a theatre history in the dynamic field that is Latin American theatre, especially as it relates to feminist movements across the Americas."—Analola Santana, author, Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theater
"Feminist Rehearsals is an impressive study of the political, sociocultural, and intellectual struggles women playwrights, actresses, and activist pioneers experienced during the early twentieth century in Argentina and Mexico. With a fresh look at feminist theory and practice, Farnsworth offers a crucial analysis regarding the role women had in the public sphere through the lens of theatre and performance studies."—Paola HernÁndez, author, Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives
"An authoritative, nuanced, and thoughtful analysis of the role of feminist political and aesthetic movements in Argentina and Mexico, Feminist Rehearsals offers new insights into how women in the Americas create space for feminist spectatorship in the twentieth century. This book is for anyone engaged in feminist performance scholarship."—E. J. Westlake, Ohio State University
May Summer Farnsworth is professor of Spanish and Hispanic studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is coeditor of a two-volume anthology of feminist plays by women in Latin America, Escrito por Mujeres. She lives in Geneva, New York.