I am a Woman Giving Birth to Myself.
[Theater] Poster: I Am a Woman Giving Birth to Myself. [Washington, New Jersey]: Times Change Press, 1973.
Theater poster, 17 x 22”; printed black on beige; “I am a woman giving birth to myself,” the birth chant from Ellen’s story, from It’s All Right to be Woman Theatre; graphic by Marcia Salo Rizzi; minor age-toning; near fine.
Scholar Dinah Luise Leavitt cites four pioneer theater groups including It’s All Right To Be A Woman established in 1970. The group wanted “to make women feel that the condition of being woman (not individual woman, but collective woman) is all right.” Their performances combined song and speech with audience interaction. Such theater groups arose out of the strong wave of feminism of the '70s. The Library of Congress holds the poster in its Yankers Poster Collection. Leavitt, Feminist Theatre Groups.
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