Performing Women: Female Characters, Male Playwrights, and the Modern Stage (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Cima, Gay Gibson
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	06/27/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Some feminists criticize male playwrights for misrepresenting and thereby victimizing women through patriarchal narratives; other feminists applaud selected male playwrights as creators of "universal" women's roles. In this bold and imaginative book, Gay Gibson Cima delineates previously unacknowledged complexities in the relationship between...