Sex Suffrage and the Stage

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage Leslie Hill provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre from the London premiere of Ibsen's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Doll's House</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement. Hill's approachable overview explores some of the pivotal ways in which theatre makers both engaged with and influenced feminist discourse on topics such as sexual agency reproductive rights marriage equality financial independence and suffrage.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Clear and concise this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance studies taking courses on Women in Theatre and Performance Staging Feminism Early Feminist Theatre Theatre and Suffrage Gender and Theatre Political Theatre and Performance Historiography. This text will also appeal to scholars lecturers and Literature students.</span></p>