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Instructors: Ph.D. Kym Bird
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.522
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: GS II AS
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
A course kit, containing the texts, can be borrowed from the secretary's office during office hours for copying: S. Wächter, room 01-577 (Philosophicum), Mo-Thur 9-12.
Contents:
This course reads the performances and biographical contexts of turn-of-the-twentieth-century women playwrights as they intersect with politics, suffrage, sexuality and the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism on stages in Canada, the United Stages and Britain. It examines how the issues and activities associated with the theatre both challenged the normal expectations of female behaviour while reinforcing conventional attitudes to gender, sexuality, social class, and empire.
Recommended reading list:
Mock Parliament (1893 and 1896), Collective Creation, ed. Kym Bird
Laura Secord: the Heroine of 1812 (1876 and 1886) and
Sweet Girl Graduate (1882), Sarah Ann Curzon
Birthright (1906), Constance Lindsay Skinner
A Chat With Miss Chicky (1912), Evelyn Glover
Diana of Dobson (1909), Cecily Hamilton
Votes for Women (1907), Robins, Elizabeth
A course kit, containing the texts, can be borrowed from the secretary's office during office hours for copying: S. Wächter, room 01-577 (Philosophicum), Mo-Thur 9-12.
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