Female Bodies on the American Stage

Download or read book Female Bodies on the American Stage written by J. Mobley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.