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Actresses as Working Women - Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Hardcover)
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Actresses as Working Women - Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Gender in Performance
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In Victorian society--rigidly stratified by both income and
occupation--performers were drawn from various class backgrounds
and enjoyed a unique degree of social mobility. Nevertheless, the
living and working conditions of female performers were distinctly
different from their male counterparts: fully justifying in social,
economic, and gender terms the semantic distinction "actress."
"Actresses as Working Women" utilizes the methodologies of a
number of disciplines--labor history, historical demography,
sociology, performance analysis, and literary theory--and a vast
amount of primary evidence to investigate actresses' separate and
equivocal status. Their segregation and marginalization guaranteed
economic insecurity. Their attempts to reconcile sexuality and the
female life cycle to a physically demanding, itinerant occupation
while under constant public scutiny led to assumptions about their
morality that were difficult to overcome. Performance
conventions--in both theatre and music hall traditions--that
reflected popular pornographic images reinforced this stigma, which
was documented in contemporaneous erotic literature and the
male-controlled culture of vice that permeated theatrical
neighborhoods.
One of the first in-depth feminist studies of the history of
theatre, "Actresses as Working Women" brings a fresh perspective
and voluminous evidence to bear on the study of nineteenth-century
theatre.
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