The best collection of suffrage plays on offer Introduced and set in historical context by Dr Susan Croft, formerly Curator at the Theatre Museum in London, with a chronology of suffrage drama from 1907-1914. The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their own theatre companies and engaged with the battle for the vote by writing and performing campaigning plays all over the country. They launched themselves onto the political stage with their satirical plays, sketches and monologues whilst at the same time challenging the staid conventions of the Edwardian Theatre of the day. The legacy of their inspiring work to change both theatre and society has survived in the political theatre, agit-prop and verbatim theatre we know today. Full playtexts from the following: ’How the Vote was Won’ by Cicely Hamilton and Chris St. John ’The Apple’ by Inez Bensusan ’Jim s Leg’ by L.S. Phibbs ’Votes for Women’ by Elizabeth Robins ’At the Gates’ by Alice Chapin ’In the Workhouse’ by Margaret Wynne Nevinson ’A Change of Tenant’ by Helen Margaret Nightingale.
Classic Plays by Women: an anthology of the best plays by female dramatists from 1600-2000 Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class conflict, rage and sexual desire. An essential resource for students, playwrights, colleges, universities and libraries, this collection also provides theatres with the opportunity to programme a range of theatrical classics by women. Plays from: Hroswitha’s Paphnutius (extract); Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam(extract); Aphra Behn’s The Rover; Susanna Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke For A Wife; Joanna Baillie’s De Montfort; Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son; Enid Bagnold’s The Chalk Garden; Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls (extract); Marie Jones’ Stones in his Pockets.
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** Hardcover Edition. For softcover, please visithttp://www.blurb.ca/b/6755979-wwest-s-gender-diversity-in-stem-a-briefing-on-womWhether meeting with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) industry leaders, talking to engineers and scientists, holding workshops for non-profit leaders, or running outreach events for youth, the same questions come up and again:“Why women in STEM?”“Why does it matter?”“Aren’t we past bias in the workplace?”“What if engineering just isn’t interesting to girls?”“What can I do?”Answering these questions requires analysis supported by facts: studies, statistics, research, and scientifically-supported conclusions.This book responds to common questions, topics, and misconceptions with factual, cited answers and evidence. Each topic is succinct, covered in an at-a-glance visual format. These chapters are accompanied by commentaries from industry leaders and academic experts, selected to provide additional perspectives on the issue of gender diversity in STEM.Topics include:Microaggessions,The Business Case for Gender Diversity,Unconscious Bias,Stereotype Threat,Social Identity Threat in the Workplace,Understanding Workplace Diversity for Managers,Gendered Language and Stereotype Awareness for Hiring Committees,Mentoring Works,What is Engineering?,Why STEM? Information for Parents & Guardians.This briefing prepares you in taking the first - or the next - step in encouraging inclusive STEM communities.
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This socio-semiotic ethnography considers how children and parents interpret movies. Using non-structural, semiotic inquiry, I analyzed how parents and their children interpret character, plot, theme and filmic conventions to discern embedded cultural discourse. I also draw on research into how families manage media in the home, and how children appropriate television into peer relationships and imaginary play. Parents carefully examined the movies for potential discussions with their children about morals and values. With these discussions, families transformed movies into moral educational tools. However, children appropriated movies beyond moral considerations, watching for information to use in everyday life, and interpreting on-screen relationships very differently than their parents. Much of what the children found salient in the movies, and the meanings they appropriated, remained unmediated by parents.
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