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Cole, Carole L. "The Search for Power: Drama by American Women, 1909-1929," Purdue University, January 1991. (22, 2, 12)
This study examines issues of power in twenty-four plays written during the decades before and after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Changes occurred which ostensibly gave women greater power, but analysis of these plays as social documents shows that while material conditions did change for women, the prevailing discourses did not: suffrage merely served to co-opt women into existing structures. Playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Eleanore gates, Mary Austin, Alice Brown, Rachel Crothers, Zona Gale, Zoe Akins, Edith Ellis, Angelina Weld Grimke, Mary Burrill, Alice Gerstenberg, Myrtle Smith Livingston, Sophie Treadwell, Marita Banner, Georgia douglas Johnson and Lula Vollmer.
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