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Kym Bird will read from her newly-published book Blowing up the Skirt of History: Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920. Alan Filewood will also be launching his book, and Dr. J. Paul Halferty of University of College Dublin will moderate a brief discussion.
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https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclduCvrzsrGtbLWVpn8cNqhFu6tnJSA6G9
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Kym Bird is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.
Blowing up the Skirt of History revives ten theatrical comedies that staged the promise of social change, empowered a counterpublic of politically vocal and socially powerful women's voices, and put women's artistic work and lives in the spotlight. When middle- and upper-class women participated in the theatre - as audience members, as playwrights, and as producers - they in turn signalled its authenticity and acceptability. Informed by feminist materialism and public sphere theory as categories of reclamation and analysis, the book's general introduction situates the plays in Canadian women's history, politics, ideologies of gender, theatrical modernism, colonialism, and a newly industrializing nation. Introductions to each work explore the playwrights' biographies, their political activity, and their literary output. Additionally they recount each play's production history and historicize the ways in which it intervenes in the ideologies of the age.