whatever happened to the cultural feminists? martha boesing and at the foot of the mountainlynne greeley is associate professor of theatre at the university of vermont. she has published articles in text and performance quarterly and theatre history studies. her other work has appeared in collections like theatre and feminist aesthetics, notable women in american theatre, american national biography, and teaching theatre today.
greeley, lynne; greeley lynne; university of vermont
Журнал:
Theatre Survey
Дата:
2005
Аннотация:
in 1991, martha boesing, cofounder of at the foot of the mountain in minneapolis, declared, “iʼm not [just] a cultural feminist. i was a marxist before these girls were even born!” the “girls” to whom she was referring were the critics whose negative response to the performance of the multicultural collaborative piece the story of a mother ii at the women and theatre program in chicago in 1987 marked a decisive clash between competing notions of feminism in american theatre. boesing later owned her own cultural feminism, as well as her marxist evocation to action, but the conflict between cultural feminists (who sought performance as a means of building communities) and materialist feminists (who resisted being constructed as part of universalized womanhood) resulted in a divide that ultimately affected the reception and hence the historical impact of at the foot of the mountain. from their founding in 1974 to this performance in 1991, boesing and at the foot of the mountain had been featured both in critical literature and at theatre conferences, hailed for their application of consciously articulated feminist politics in the creative process of their plays. after chicago, they lost momentum as subjects of study in critical scholarship.
88.62Кб
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Jannarone, Kimberly; Jannarone Kimberly; University of California Santa Cruz (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
-
Postlewait, Thomas; Postlewait Thomas; Ohio State University (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
-
graham-jones, jean; graham-jones jean; hunter college (cambridge university press, 2005)