The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any

Through a series of biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Dudden provides a discussion of the conflicted messages conveyed by the early theat

First full-scale revision since 1987.