Conversations with Beth Henley Bruce Hales-Dutton Feminist theory and political activism

Feminist theory and political activism need not-indeed cannot-be distinct and alienated from one another

Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy

" - Christopher Bamford During the early seventeenth century

And this extraordinary debut repeatedly finds resource and solace in a poem's ability to hear and set down the right word or phrase

the adoption of active economic and social rights agendas by major international human rights NGOs

Conversations with Beth Henley Bruce Hales-Dutton Feminist theory and political activismWith roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty eight, Henley so far has written twenty five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd pleasers, Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest, to her