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This book deals with theatre's two standing offers to women - transformation and objectification - during the period when the American entertainment industry was taking shape and the first women's right movement emerged. Through a series of vivid biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Faye Dudden provides a provocative discussion of the conflicting messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman.Dudden, Faye E. is the author of 'Women in American Theatre' with ISBN 9780300056365 and ISBN 0300056362.
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