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Imagine four hundred actresses attending a London hotel luncheon in 1908 determined to effect change for women. A resolution emerged that very day to begin the Actresses Franchise League, which produced original suffrage plays, orchestrated mass demonstrations, and collaborated with ordinary women. The roles many of these actresses had played during the previous few seasons also spurred their activism, particularly in plays written by Bernard Shaw. The hot topics--conflation of public and private controversies over sexuality, income distribution, full citizenship across gender and class--are...

Historical opinions regarding Joan of Arc are fraught with contradiction. As one of the most widely studied women in history, she has been labeled both a saint and a criminal, both a pioneering feminist and an "unnatural" transvestite. This work explores the attitudes that have followed Joan of Arc for centuries, beginning with the notions of gender and authority in the 15th century during Joan's criminal trials. The book's central premise explores the interconnected social and political threads that informed the decision to canonize Joan of Arc in the nineteenth century, with extensive...