On Streisand

This critical analysis of Streisand looks past the mainstream show-business figure to deconstruct the revolutionary that she really is: as a passionate actor of songs, a revisionist in the development of the American movie star, and a performer of unprecedented range. She can play the madcap Fanny Brice and Dolly, the politically intense heroine of The Way We Were, the sexually abused daughter who becomes a prostitute and a murderer in Nuts, the cross-dressing Yentl who seeks the liberty that men take for granted and women are denied.