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Details Cannot Body Wants is a Singaporean feminist play [1] [2] written by Chin Woo Ping and directed by K.K. Seet. It was first published in 1992 in the book The Naturalization of Camellia Song & Details Cannot Body Wants and staged on 12 and 13 September 1992 in The Substation's Guinness Theatre by the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) as a part of the double bill Renewable ...
The leading female role, Mrs Arbuthnot, was intended for Madge Kendal, but for contractual reasons she withdrew and was replaced by Mrs Bernard Beere. [6] The play was first performed on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, to an audience that included Arthur Balfour and Joseph Chamberlain; [7] the Prince of Wales attended the second ...
Nina Rapi's first play Ithaka was initially performed as a staged reading in 1989 at Riverside Studios by the Women's Theatre Workshop. Dimple Godiwala referring to Shadow, one of the key characters in the play, wrote: 'Shadow is where we begin to recognise the depths of sexuality (and otherness) we all possess...To invite an introspection which rests on the shadowed self we need to recognise ...
Female Advocate or, an Answer to a Late Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex, Sarah Fyge Egerton (1686) [14] A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, Mary Astell (1694) An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex.
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
In the original performance, Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. The play is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks. Written during the first wave feminist movement, the play contrasts how women act in public and in private as well as how they perform in front of other women versus how they perform in front of men.
Parry studied playwriting at the University of Birmingham and read English Language and Literature at Exeter College, Oxford. [4] In 2011, she co-founded Agent 160 Theatre Company [5] and co-produced two of its shows: a run of short plays by female playwrights in Cardiff, London and Glasgow, and also a series of female monologues at Wales Millennium Centre.
The Vagina Monologues has been criticized by some within the feminist movement, including pro-sex feminists and individualist feminists. [19] Sex-positive feminist Betty Dodson, author of several books about female sexuality, saw the play as having a narrow and restrictive view of sexuality. Dodson's main concern seemed to be the lack of the ...