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Actresses as Working Women : Their Social Identity in Victorian England (Gender in Performance)
Actresses as Working Women Their Social Identity in Victorian England - Gender in Performance Author:Tracy C. Davis In Victorian society--rigidly stratified by both income and occupation--performers were drawn from various class backgrounds and enjoyed a unique degree of social mobility. Nevertheless, the living and working conditions of female performers were distinctly different from their male counterparts: fully justifying in social, economic, and gender ... more »terms the semantic distinction ``actress.'' Actresses as Working Women utilizes the methodologies of a number of disciplines--labor history, historical demography, sociology, performance analysis, and literary theory--and a vast amount of primary evidence to investigate actresses' separate and equivocal status. One of the first in-depth feminist studies of the history of theatre, Actresses as Working Women brings a fresh perspective and voluminous evidence to bear on the study of nineteenth-century theatre.« less