Restaging Feminisms

Aston, Elaine (2020) Restaging Feminisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. ISBN 9783030405885

Abstract

Restaging Feminisms proposes a re-encounter with the three political (liberal, radical, and socialist) strands that were core to seventies feminism and to pioneering feminist analysis in theatre studies. I undertake this re-engagement not with a view to a nostalgic rehabilitation of the past, but rather to explore how the past folds into the present: to understand how, in the context of British theatre, re-presentations of liberal, radical, and socialist feminisms might connect the past to present political and critical practices.