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Composing Ourselves

The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience

By: Dorothy Chansky

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Composing Ourselves

The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience

By: Dorothy Chansky

When movies replaced theater in the early twentieth century, live drama was wide open to reform. A rebellion against commercialism, called the Little Theatre movement, promoted the notion that theatre is a valuable form of self-expression. Composing Ourselves argues that the movement was a national phenomenon that resulted in lasting ideas for serious theatre that are now ordinary parts of the American cultural landscape.

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SIU Press

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ISBN 10

0809326493

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9780809326495

Kitchen Sink Realisms

Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre

By: Dorothy Chansky

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Kitchen Sink Realisms

Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre

By: Dorothy Chansky

From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively dubbed “kitchen sink realism” to both support and contest the idea that the home is naturally women’s sphere. But there is more to the genre than even its supporters suggest. In analyzing kitchen sink realisms, Dorothy Chansky reveals the ways that food preparation, domestic labor, dining, serving, entertaining, and cleanup saturate the lives of dramatic characters and situations even when they do not take center stage. Offering resistant readings that rely on close attention to the particular cultural and semiotic environments in which plays and their audiences operated, she sheds compelling light on the changing debates about women’s roles and the importance of their household labor across lines of class and race in the twentieth century. The story begins just after World War I, as more households were electrified and fewer middle-class housewives could afford to hire maids. In the 1920s, popular mainstream plays staged the plight of women seeking escape from the daily grind; African American playwrights, meanwhile, argued that housework was the least of women’s worries. Plays of the 1930s recognized housework as work to a greater degree than ever before, while during the war years domestic labor was predictably recruited to the war effort—sometimes with gender-bending results. In the famously quiescent and anxious 1950s, critiques of domestic normalcy became common, and African American maids gained a complexity previously reserved for white leading ladies. These critiques proliferated with the re-emergence of feminism as a political movement from the 1960s on. After the turn of the century, the problems and comforts of domestic labor in black and white took center stage. In highlighting these shifts, Chansky brings the real home.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609383753

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

A Practical Guide

By: Dorothy Stubbe

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

A Practical Guide

By: Dorothy Stubbe

Written by the training director of Yale Child Study Center's world-renowned psychiatry program, this practical handbook is a quick, concise guide for professionals on the front lines of child and adolescent mental health care. Using the conversational style and clinical vignettes found in all Practical Guides in Psychiatry titles, Dr. Stubbe takes clinicians through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering essential fast facts and effective patient care strategies. Sections cover psychiatric evaluation; disorders seen in infants, children, and adolescents; treatment modalities and treatment planning; and special circumstances including psychiatric emergencies, child neglect and abuse, and family issues. Easy-to-use appendices include rating scales and resource information. The Practical Guides in Psychiatry series provides quick, concise information for professionals on the front lines of mental health care. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, these invaluable resources take you through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering fast facts and helpful strategies that help you provide effective and compassionate care to your patients.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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078177831X

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9780781778312

Kitchen Sink Realisms

Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre

By: Dorothy Chansky

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Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre

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University of Iowa Press

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1609383761

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Theatre History Studies 2007, Vol. 27

By: Theatre History Studies

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Theatre History Studies 2007, Vol. 27

By: Theatre History Studies

Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817354409

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9780817354404

Wisdom from Dorothy Day

A Radical Love

By: Dorothy Day,Patricia Mitchell

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Wisdom from Dorothy Day

A Radical Love

By: Dorothy Day,Patricia Mitchell

Saints and spiritual writers have much to tell us about living the Christian life. The Wisdom series condenses the great spiritual truths penned by holy men and women and presents them in a fresh and exciting way. These books explore writings as ancient as the church Fathers and as modern as Dorothy Day and Blessed Pope John XXIII.

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0932085458

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9780932085450

Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane

Forty Years of Friendship : Letters, 1921-1960

By: Dorothy Thompson,Rose Wilder Lane

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Forty Years of Friendship : Letters, 1921-1960

By: Dorothy Thompson,Rose Wilder Lane

The correspondence of these two prominent women reveals their concerns with love, career, and marriage. Their letters tell the story of the first generation of women to come of age during the twentieth century, as they tried to cope with problems that still face women today."--Publishers website.

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Les Guides de voyage Ulysse

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0826206468

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9780826206466

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Composing Ourselves

Composing Ourselves

Kitchen Sink Realisms

Kitchen Sink Realisms

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Kitchen Sink Realisms

Kitchen Sink Realisms

Theatre History Studies 2007, Vol. 27

Theatre History Studies 2007, Vol. 27

Wisdom from Dorothy Day

Wisdom from Dorothy Day

Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane

Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane

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