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312 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780472097722
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 09 July 2002
Description
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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312 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780472097722
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 09 July 2002
Description
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...