When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American
tour in 1880, the term "feminism" had not yet entered our national
vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising
generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of
woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies
and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers
eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly
modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious,
independent, and sexually expressive "New Women."
"Female Spectacle" reveals the theater to have been a powerful
new source of cultural authority and visibility for women.
Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and
audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that
accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern
methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics,
from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving
chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women
and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern
feminism.
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