Theatre for Women's Participation in Sustainable Development

Beth Osnes is Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Colorado, US. She was recipient of the Chancellor¹s Committee on Women Awards, University of Colorado, 2009. She is co-founder of Mothers Acting Up, an international movement to inspire and mobilize mothers to advocate on behalf of the world’s children. In partnership with the Philanthropiece Foundation, Beth is currently touring her (M)other Tour, which consists of an original one-woman performance and workshop for vocal empowerment, to locations across North America and parts of Southeast Asia and Latin America.

• Introduction  1. Obstacles and Creative Solutions  2. Theatre for Gender Equity in Maternal Health  3. Theatre for Stabilizing Population Growth  4. Theatre for Gender Equity in Clean Energy  5. Conclusion—Sustaining Gender Equity in Sustainable  Development Through Theatre-based Methods  Afterword:  Report from Earth Summit in Rio 2012

"…the author is well informed about developmental discourses and challenges through her own long-term involvement in clean energy programmes. She has presented her work not only or not even primarily to theatre scholars, but also at conferences on development and technology and sustainable energy, where she established contacts with some of the organisations she visited, offered workshops to and spent time studying. This knowledge of the problems and debates around energy, women’s health, or mother-child-care programmes based on her experiences in three continents, lends the study a certain rigour in the presentation of the issues." – Elisabeth Tropper, Theatre Research