A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical by Stacy Wolf

A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical

Stacy Wolf

312 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
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Subverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expec...

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