Mythic women/real women : plays and performance pieces by women
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Mythic women/real women : plays and performance pieces by women
Faber and Faber, 2000
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"Copyright, publication, performing rights and audio/visual information": p. 385-387
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This wide-ranging international collection of plays and performance pieces by women includes work by Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Sarah Daniels, Jackie Kay, Jamaica Kincaid and Elaine Feinstein.Lizbeth Goodman, Lecturer in Literature at the Open University, has carefully selected the pieces around the notion of 'real' and 'mythic' women and her comprehesive intrdouction illustrates the diversity of form and content in the work, explores the relationship between gender and power, and considers ways in which women are looked at and look at themselves both in writing and in performance. Mythic Women/Real Women provides a wealth of performance pieces for women as well as being a provocative and fascinating primer for women's studies and theatre studies courses.
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