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Subverting assumptions that American musical theatre is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations.

A Problem Like Maria

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    Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
    Publication Date: 31/07/2002
    ISBN13: 9780472067725, 978-0472067725
    ISBN10: 0472067729
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    Music of film and stage Feminism and feminist theory

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    Book Synopsis
    Subverting assumptions that American musical theatre is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations.

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