{"product_id":"girls-performance-and-activism-demanding-to-be-heard-paperback","title":"Girls, Performance, and Activism: Demanding to be Heard - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDana Edell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGirls, Performance, and Activism\u003c\/em\u003e offers artists, activists, educators, and scholars a comprehensive analysis, celebration, and critique of the ways in which teenage girls create and perform activist theater. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGirls, particularly Black and Latinx teenagers, are using the tools of performance to share their stories, devise new ones, and use the stage to advocate for social change. Interweaving interviews, poetic text, drama, and theory, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how and why this field erupted and the ways in which girls are using performance to transform themselves and enact change in their communities. As a white woman who has collaboratively created theater with hundreds of girls of color over the past 20 years, Dana Edell offers strategies for engaging with girls across difference through an intersectional lens in order to acknowledge the ways in which race, gender, age, class, ability, and sexuality influence girls' experiences and relationships with adult collaborators as they work to create meaningful, impactful, and often personal activist performances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the go-to handbook for teachers, theater directors, and performance makers who want to create politically engaged work with teenage girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDana Edell\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor of Applied Theatre at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786155557152,"sku":"9780367427115","price":79.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/23e13006ac3dfc649ffe77fda0f4bd39.webp?v=1780628627","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/girls-performance-and-activism-demanding-to-be-heard-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}