Feminist and Queer Performance
Critical Strategies
Published on 12. November 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-230-53755-2 (ISBN)
Description
Sue-Ellen Case is arguably the most influential and significant scholar in feminist and queer theatre studies. This collection brings together her most important writing. Framing this with new introductory material, Sue-Ellen Case will contextualise her work within broader developments in critical theory and feminist / lesbian studies.
Reviews / Votes
'By way of her strong writing style, Case leaves the over-determined space of an abstracted feminism for an international and multidisciplinary stage, foregrounding questions of race, class and sexual identitiy that lead into her more recent work on a non-essentialist eco-feminism, outlined in the introduction to this volume. Case's insistence on interactivity and performativity across disciplines and cultural borders throughout these essays demonstrates how her commitment to socio-political themes on an inernational scale is part of a broader praxis.' - Fiona Anderson, Contemporary Theatre ReviewMore details
Edition
2008
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-53755-2 (9780230537552)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-04560-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2008
Red Globe Press
€162.20
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Person
SUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in Theater and Director of the Center for Performance Studies at UCLA, USA.
Content
INTRODUCTION.- PART I: QUEER THEORY AND PERFORMANCE.- Making Butch: A Historical Memoir of 1970s Butch / Femme.- Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic.- Toward a Butch-Feminist Retro-Future.- Tracking the Vampire.- Making Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970's.- PART II: FEMINIST PERFORMANCE.- From Split Subject to Split Britches.- Feminism and Performance: A Post-Disciplinary Couple.- The Masked Activist: Greek Strategies for the Streets.- Performing Feminism on the International Stage.- The Screens of Time: Feminist Hopes and Memoirs.- PART III: GENDERED PERFORMANCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES.- Performing the Cyberbody on the Transnational Stage.- Sexing the Interface: Gender, Sex, and the Avatar.