{"product_id":"stage-women-1900-50-female-theatre-workers-and-professional-practice-9781526100702","title":"Stage Women, 1900–50: Female Theatre Workers and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women’s networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: ‘Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm’ looks at the relationship between women’s work – on and off stage – and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. ‘Women and popular performance’ focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction - Maggie B. Gale and Kate Dorney \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 ‘Believe me or not’: actresses, female performers, autobiography and the scripting of professional practice - Maggie B. Gale\u003cbr\u003e2 Female networks: collecting contacts with Gabrielle Enthoven - Kate Dorney\u003cbr\u003e3 Past the memoir: Winifred Dolan beyond the West End - Lucie Sutherland\u003cbr\u003e4 Off-stage labour: actresses, charity work and the early twentieth-century theatre profession - Catherine Hindson\u003cbr\u003e5 ‘Very much alive and kicking’: the Actresses’ Franchise League from 1914–28 - Naomi Paxton\u003cbr\u003e6 Defending the body, defending the self: women performers and the law in the ‘long’ Edwardian period - Viv Gardner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Women and popular performance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Emotional and natural: the Australian and New Zealand repertoires and fortunes of north American performers Margaret Anglin, Katherine Grey and Muriel Starr - Veronica Kelly\u003cbr\u003e8 Lily Brayton: a theatre maker in every sense - Brian Singleton \u003cbr\u003e9 Aerial star: Lillian Leitzel’s celebrity, agency and her performed femininity - Kate Holmes\u003cbr\u003e10 Ellen Terry: the art of performance and her work in film - Katharine Cockin\u003cbr\u003e11 Mabel Constanduros: different voices, voicing difference - Gilli Bush-Bailey         \u003cbr\u003e12 The odd woman: Margaret Rutherford - John Stokes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040973914455,"sku":"9781526100702","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526100702.jpg?v=1750948457","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stage-women-1900-50-female-theatre-workers-and-professional-practice-9781526100702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}