Stage women, 1900-50 : Female theatre workers and professional practice
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 157656924
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-5261-0070-2
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC: Drama
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This co-edited volume [50%/50%] brings together a range of established and emerging scholars researching different aspects of women and theatre, with a particular focus on issues of professional agency, practice and labour. Divided into two sections on aspects of women’s theatre work in the social and professional realm and women and popular performance, the editors commissioned work which reflected on the dynamic and complex contexts for re-reading and re-locating women’s creative practice in histories of theatre and performance. The volume was carefully constructed so as to make connections between the professional circumstances of actresses, performers, administrators, writers, collectors and teachers across theatre, film, business and the cultural sector. The introduction (co-authored, 50%/50%) sets out the scope of the volume and articulates the shared experiences and networked practices across time and geography, alongside the historiographic issues raised by the erasure of such workers and their labour from extant histories of theatre and performance. 'Stage Women' offers a genuine intervention into our shaping of histories of women’s labour, placing together critical analyses of film stars such as Margaret Rutherford, with celebrated aerialist Lillian Leitzel, collector Gabrielle Enthoven and stage star Terry’s work in later life in film for example, with essays which explore issues of legacy, legality and charity, and the ways in which these impacted on the varying professional lives of stage women of the era. The work for assessment here is Gale’s contribution to the ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-16, and her sole authored chapter, ‘ “Believe me or not”; Actresses, female performers, autobiography and the scripting of professional practice’, pp. 17-42. The University of Manchester funded the conversion of the volume to an open access format.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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