Catherine Lenore Itzin (29 May 1944, in

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, US – 9 March 2010), also known as Cathy Itzin, was a critic specialising in alternative theatre and later an advisor on

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. Itzin immigrated to

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in the late 1960s and completed an MPhil at

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and a PhD at the

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some years later. A co-editor of ''Theatre Quarterly'' until 1977 she began the ''Alternative Theatre Directory'' as a short section of the journal in 1971; the directory itself had become a substantial periodical by 1975. She was drama critic of ''

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'' for about a decade, and wrote a history of the alternative theatre movement, published as ''Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain Since 1968'' (1980). She was an Honorary Research Fellow in the Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations Research Unit, Department of Applied Social Studies at the

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. The editor of ''Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties'', a collection of essays published by

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which explores the impact

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has on the perception and treatment of women. She was for a time a member of the Executive Committee of the

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pressure group. She was married to Wojciech Itzin-Borowy and had two children. Itzin died in 2010, aged 65, from

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Selected works

*''Gender, Culture and Organizational Change Putting Theory into Practice'' by Catherine Itzin and Janet Newman (2003) *''I Don't Feel Old: Experience of Later Life'' by Paul Thompson, Catherine Itzin and Michele Abendstern (1990) *''Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties'' (1993) *''Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain Since 1968'' (1980) *''Splitting Up: Single Parent Liberation'' (1980) *''Twentieth Century Polish Theatre'' edited by Bohdan Drozdowski; English translations (from the Polish) edited by Catherine Itzin (1979)

References

1944 births 2010 deaths Alumni of University College London Academics of the University of Bradford American emigrants to England People from Iowa City, Iowa Anti-pornography feminists American women's rights activists Alumni of the University of Kent Deaths from cancer in England Deaths from small intestine cancer Academics of the University of Essex {{UK-academic-bio-stub