o Project was to write a play about the African American experience in each decade of the 20th century THET110 Notes November 14 2012 Separatism and revolutionary action Black Arts Movement Black consciousness New aesthetics and innovations in form and structure By 1970 there are 125 black theater companies August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle Feminist Susan Glaspell o Journalist novelist o Cofounder of Provincetown players o Influenced by socialism and women s rights Member of heterodoxy in Greenwich village We Can Do It WWII women enter the workforce in record numbers Return to renewed domesticity Second Wave Feminism Goals End discrimination and violence towards women Strategies Consciousness raising Access to safe legal contraception and Regulation Rethink women s roles as daughters Formal Education Recognize women s historical and Direct political action abortion wives mothers academic contributions Impact on Theater Canon is revisited Wider visibility of women playwrights directors producers designers Richer roles for women The Heidi Chronicles Wendy Wasserstein Respect choices women make about the direction of their lives Success defined differently for men and women Family essential but traditional models do not work
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