Conversations with Beth Henley Bruce Hales-Dutton Unlike prior studies of the

Unlike prior studies of the Harlem Renaissance

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

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

Conversations with Beth Henley Bruce Hales-Dutton Unlike prior studies of theWith 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