| Description |
vi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lynda Hart -- Reciting the Citation of Others; or, A Second Introduction / Peggy Phelan -- 1. Caught in the Act of Social Definition: On the Road with Anna Deavere Smith / Sandra L. Richards -- 2. From Lady Dick to Ladylike: The Work of Holly Hughes / Kate Davy -- 3. Cherrie Moraga's "Shadow of a Man": Touching the Wound in Order to Heal / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- 4. Desire Cloaked in a Trenchcoat / Jill Dolan -- 5. Identity and Seduction: Lesbians in the Mainstream / Lynda Hart -- 6. Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts: The Taboo Art of Karen Finley / C. Carr -- 7. "Telling the Awfullest Truth": An Interview with Karen Finley / C. Carr -- 8. Resisting Thatcherism: The Monstrous Regiment and the School of Hard Knox / Janelle Reinelt -- 9. Siren Theatre Company: Politics in Performance / Joyce Devlin -- 10. The Women's Experimental Theatre: Transforming Family Stories into Feminist Questions / Julie Malnig and Judy C. Rosenthal |
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11. Split Britches in Split Britches: Performing History, Vaudeville, and the Everyday / Vivian M. Patraka -- 12. See the Big Show: Spiderwoman Theater Doubling Back / Rebecca Schneider -- 13. Toward a Lesbian Theory of Performance: Refunctioning Gender / Hilary Harris -- 14. Robbie McCauley: Speaking History Other-Wise / Raewyn Whyte -- 15. Staging Hurston's Life and Work / Lynda M. Hill -- 16. "Brought to You by Fem-Rage": Stand-up Comedy and the Politics of Gender / Philip Auslander -- 17. Is She or Isn't She?: Madonna and the Erotics of Appropriation / Amy Robinson -- 18. Mimesis, Mimicry, and the "True-Real" / Elin Diamond -- 19. White Men and Pregnancy: Discovering the Body to Be Rescued / Peggy Phelan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Feminism and theater.
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Feminist theater.
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Performance art.
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Women artists -- 20th century.
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Women artists.
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| Author |
Hart, Lynda, 1953-
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Phelan, Peggy.
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| LC no. |
93016280 |
| ISBN |
0472064797 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0472094793 (alk. paper) |
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