Abstract body language: Documenting women's bodies in theatre

New Theatre Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-118

  Cutler, Anna ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 62649166433     PISSN: 0266464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0266464x00011921     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. T. R. Griffiths and C. Woddis, Bloomsbury Theatre Guide, new edition (London: Bloomsbury, 1991), p. vii.
2. M. Banham and S. Stanton, eds., Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
3. Sue Ellen Case points out that despite more recent uses, the female body as text is 'traceable to the women mimes of Greece and Rome ... and continuing through the personal sexual salons of Vamhagen and Barney'. See S. E. Case, 'Personal Theatre', in Feminism and Theatre (London: Macmillan, 1988).
4. London Theatre Record, 4-17 June 1994.
5. J. Long, 1994: What Share of the Cake Now? (University of North London: unpublished, 1996).
6. Such as: S. E. Case, Feminism and Theatre (London: Macmillan, 1988);
7. E. Aston, An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre (London: Routledge 1995);
8. H. Keyssar, Feminist Theatre (London: Macmillan, 1984);
9. T. Davis, Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (London: Routledge, 1991);
10. R. Gilder, Enter the Actress: the First Women in Theatre (London: Harrap, 1931).
11. M. Foucault, 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History', The Foucault Reader: an Introduction to Foucault's Thought, ed. Paul Rabinow (London: Penguin, 1991), p. 78.
12. E. Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), p. 146.
13. L. Segal, 'Hiding Out or Moving On? Feminism in Psychoanalysis', Radical Philosophy, No. 68 (Autumn 1994), p. 1.
14. Quoted in E. Grosz, Volatile Bodies, op. cit, p. 146.
15. 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History', in The Foucault Reader, op. cit.
16. See Running-Johnson, quoted in E. Aston, An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre, op. cit., p. 42.
17. See H. Cixous, 'An Exchange with Hélène Cixous', in V. Andermatt Conley, Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine (Lincoln; London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991), p. 128.
18. S. Sellers, Language and Sexual Difference: Feminist Writing in France (London: Macmillan, 1991), p. 133.
19. H. Cixous, 'The Laugh of The Medusa', trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, No. 41 (Summer 1976), p. 881.