Background
Cima, Gay Gibson was born on November 18, 1948 in Falls City, Nebraska, United States. Son of Richard Marion and Geraldine Smith Gibson.
(In Performing Anti-Slavery, Gay Gibson Cima reimagines th...)
In Performing Anti-Slavery, Gay Gibson Cima reimagines the connection between the self and the other within activist performance, providing fascinating new insights into women's nineteenth-century reform efforts, revising the history of abolition, and illuminating an affective repertoire that haunts both present-day theatrical stages and anti-trafficking organizations. Cima argues that black and white American women in the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement transformed mainstream performance practices into successful activism. In family circles, literary associations, religious gatherings, and transatlantic anti-slavery societies, women debated activist performance strategies across racial and religious differences: they staged abolitionist dialogues, recited anti-slavery poems, gave speeches, shared narratives, and published essays. Drawing on liberal religious traditions as well as the Eastern notion of transmigration, Elizabeth Chandler, Sarah Forten, Maria W. Stewart, Sarah Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Ellen Craft and others forged activist pathways that reverberate to this day.
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Some feminists criticize male playwrights for misrepresenting and thereby victimizing women through patriarchal narratives; other feminists applaud selected male playwrights as creators of "universal" women's roles. In this bold and imaginative book, Gay Gibson Cima delineates previously unacknowledged complexities in the relationship between male playwrights and female characters in the modern theatre. That relationship has been misinterpreted, she maintains, because the contributions of female actors and the variations in their actual performance conditions and styles are too often ignored. Taking into account hypothetical as well as historical performances of works by representative male playwrights from Ibsen to Beckett, Cima sheds important new light on the acting styles invented by women to create female characters on stage. Changes in performance style, Cima observes, may alter conventional modes of viewing and disrupt behavioral codes generated by a patriarchal cultural system. Performing Women is essential reading for theatre critics and historians, feminist theorists, theatre professionals and amateurs, and others interested in film and the stage.
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Cima, Gay Gibson was born on November 18, 1948 in Falls City, Nebraska, United States. Son of Richard Marion and Geraldine Smith Gibson.
Bachelor of Science, University Nebraska, 1970. Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1978.
Instructor Clayton Junior College, Atlanta, 1971-1973. Graduate assistant Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1973-1976. Assistant professor Blackburn College, Carlinville, Illinois, 1976-1977.
Adjunct instructor Georgetown University, George Washington University, Northern Virginia Community College, Washington, Manassas, Virginia, 1978-1980. Assistant professor Georgetown University, Washington, 1980-1986, associate professor, 1986-1994, professor, since 1994. Reader, evaluator Cornell University Press, University Michigan Press, Indiana University Press, since 1981.
Project director International Voices and Bicentennial Voices Poetry Series, Georgetown University, 1989.
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Canvasser Clean Water Action Project, McLean, Virginia, 1989-1990. Neighborhood coordinator March of Dimes, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, McLean, 1991-1993. Volunteer Girl Scouts American, McLean, since 1991.
Member American Society for Theatre Research (conference development task force, rationales task force, chambers playwriting award panel, Kahan prize committee 1995-1998, executive board 1996-1998, Kahan Scholar's prize 1984), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (chair program committee 1987-1989, activism facilitator Women and Theatre Forum 1992-1994, member program committee 1995-1997, member research and publications committee since 1998).
Married Ronald Jerry Cima, July 3, 1976. Children: Gibson Alessandro, Anna Francesca.