| Description |
xviii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Studies in international performance |
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Studies in international performance.
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| Contents |
Bloody aprons : Suzan-Lori Parks, Deborah Warner and feminist performance in the age of globalisation / Elin Diamond -- Mind yourself : on soundwalking, race and gender / Karen Shimakawa -- Globalising neoliberalism, travelling feminisms : Pollesch@Prater / Katrin Sieg -- The queer globe itself / Sue-Ellen Case -- Actress stories : Binodini and Amal Allana / Bishnupriya Dutt -- Stockholm interventions : feminist activist performance / Tiina Rosenberg -- Women's writing for performance project : 'making' a feminist intervention / Elain Aston -- Reconstructing a diasporic female self in O Kyong-Sook's Dictee, a speaking woman / Jung-Soon Shim -- Giving back to Judith : Laura Curino's Una stanza tutta per me/A room of my own / Roberta Gandolfi -- Anticipating globalisation : Rosamond Gilder and the International Theatre Institute / Charlotte Canning -- Exile and the elusive qualities of time / Julie Holledge -- Cultural memory in El séptimo cielo : an inter-cultural staging of Caryl Churchill's Cloud nine / Noelia Hernando-Real -- Stretching Medea to postmodern sensibilities / Elizabeth Sakellaridou -- A journey towards sensitisation and empowerment : feminist performance and intervention theatre in the city of Jaipur / Asha Pande -- The demon's nuns : Petrona de la Cruz Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa (Mexico) / Diana Taylor -- Reflection on the work that is being done within FOMMA with respect to women, gender and patriarchy, change, new generations and new technologies / Isabel Juárez Espinosa -- MAKE SOMETHING : a manifesto for making performance about making change / Lois Weaver with Peggy Shaw -- Pakistani Muslim theatre at home and abroad : a critical manifesto for a feminist homecoming / Fawzia Afzal-Kahn -- Reflections on my literary performance theatre : a manifesto for Nigerian women / Irene Isoken Salami-Agunloye -- A manifesto for an Israeli she monster / Yael Feiler -- Feminist performance and utopia : a manifesto / Jill Dolan |
| Summary |
An anthology of international feminist theatre research, this title brings feminist critical attention to theatre, activism and performance in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South Americas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) |
| Subject |
Feminism and theater.
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Women in the theater.
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Women in the performing arts.
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Feminist criticism.
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| Author |
Aston, Elaine.
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Case, Sue-Ellen.
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| ISBN |
9781403987013 (hbk.) |
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1403987017 (hbk.) |
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9781349541133 |
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