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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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    A Paperback / softback by Stacy Wolf

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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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      Entertainment Music of film and stage Feminism and feminist theory

      Description

      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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