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Performing Feminisms

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801839696

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A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.

The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance

Author : Tiina Rosenberg,Sandra D'Urso,Anna Renée Winget
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030695552

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The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance by Tiina Rosenberg,Sandra D'Urso,Anna Renée Winget Pdf

The purpose of this Handbook is to provide students with an overview of key developments in queer and trans feminist theories and their significance to the field of contemporary performance studies. It presents new insights highlighting the ways in which rigid or punishing notions of gender, sexuality and race continue to flourish in systems of knowledge, faith and power which are relevant to a new generation of queer and trans feminist performers today. The guiding question for the Handbook is: How do queer and trans feminist theories enhance our understanding of developments in feminist performance today, and will this discussion give rise to new ways of theorizing contemporary performance? As such, the volume will survey a new generation of performers and theorists, as well as senior scholars, who engage and redefine the limits of performance. The chapters will demonstrate how intersectional, queer and trans feminist theoretical tools support new analyses of performance with a global focus. The primary audience will be students of theatre/ performance studies as well as queer /gender studies. The volume’s contents suggest close links between the formation of queer feminist identities alongside recent key political developments with transnational resonances. Furthermore, the emergence of new queer and trans feminist epistemologies prompts a reorientation regarding performance and identities in a 21st-century context.

Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms

Author : Lena Martinsson,Diana Mulinari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351369350

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Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms by Lena Martinsson,Diana Mulinari Pdf

In a world where frontiers are militarised and classifications systems defining rights and belonging are reinforced, transnational feminist agendas are fundamental. We use the concept of ‘scholarships of hope’ to analyse the diversity of feminist struggles and imaginaries in diverse geopolitical locations. Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms explores subversive practices of knowledge production that challenge Eurocentric scientific models and agendas. The book also explores the tensions and challenges of doing transnational feminist theory at the crossroads between feminist scholarship and feminist activism. In conjunction, these chapters provide a solid analysis framed by feminist methodologies opening complexities and contradictions of individual and collective feminist and trans identity struggles in Argentina, Belarus, Pakistan, Sweden, Taiwan and Turkey. These identities and struggles are rooted in transnational and local genealogies that go beyond the narratives of the West as the origin for democracy and human rights, providing powerful agendas for alternative futures.

Staging Feminisms

Author : Anita Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000411706

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This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key themes like feminism and folk epic, community theatre, performance as radical cultural intervention, volatile bodies and celebratory protests. Through analysing performances of theatre stalwarts like Usha Ganguly, Maya Krishna Rao, Sanjoy Ganguly, Shilpi Marwaha and Teejan Bai, the volume discusses the complexities and contradictions of a feminist reading of contemporary performances. A major intervention in the field of feminism and performance, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of gender studies, performance studies, theatre studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology of gender and literature.

Staging International Feminisms

Author : E. Aston,S. Case
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230287693

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Staging International Feminisms by E. Aston,S. Case Pdf

This is a landmark anthology of international feminist theatre research. A three-part structure orientates readers through Cartographies of feminist critical navigations of the global arena; the staging of feminist Interventions in a range of international contexts; and Manifestos for today's feminist practitioners, activists and academics.

Nuyorican Feminist Performance

Author : Patricia Herrera
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054480

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Nuyorican Feminist Performance by Patricia Herrera Pdf

The Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past forty years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and black cultural politics. The Café’s performances—poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama—have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and ’80s performeras and how they challenged the Café’s gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences. The book spotlights the work of foundational artists such as Sandra María Esteves, Martita Morales, Luz Rodríguez, and Amina Muñoz, before turning to contemporary artists La Bruja, Mariposa, Aya de León, and Nilaja Sun, who infuse their poetry and solo pieces with both Nuyorican and hip hop aesthetics.

The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance

Author : Lizbeth Goodman,Jane De Gay
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Feminism and theater
ISBN : 0415165830

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The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance by Lizbeth Goodman,Jane De Gay Pdf

This comprehensive volume reviews women's contributions to theatre history and examines how theatre has represented women over the centuries.

Performing Marginality

Author : Joanne R. Gilbert
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814328032

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Performing Marginality by Joanne R. Gilbert Pdf

An academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.

Staging Black Feminisms

Author : Lynette Goddard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230801448

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Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women's plays and performance since the late Twentieth century. Using contemporary performance theory to explore key themes, it offers close textual readings and production analysis of a range of plays, performance poetry and live art works by practitioners.

Men Doing Feminism

Author : Tom Digby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135772154

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The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic, so that men are expected to resist feminism, and feminists are assumed to hate men. That pattern of opposition is disrupted, however, by the continually increasing numbers of men who are participating in feminist theory and practice, trying to integrate feminist perspectives into their scholarship, teaching, work, play, friendships, and romantic involvements. Responses to this male feminism have varied. Sometimes male feminists find some female feminists critical of men who oppose or decline to join feminist projects, but also rebuff the few men who do undertake feminist projects. On the other hand, some women feminists have unequivocally welcomed men as allies in political, business, religious, and academic contexts. The essays in Men Doing Feminism reveal that there is justification for both views, the skeptical and the enthusiastic, because feminist men are as diverse as feminist women. Many of the eighteen contributors to this book--women, men, blacks, whites, gays, straights, transsexuals--use personal narrative to show ways that men's lives can shape their approaches to doing feminism and to convey the opportunities and challenges involved in integrating feminism into a man's life. Some authors argue that men's experiences prepare them to make contributions that are of crucial importance to feminist theory. Others argue that men must radically reform, or even abandon manhood and masculinity if they are to be feminists. In Men Doing Feminism, feminist theory is used to illuminate men's lives, and men's lives serve as a basis for feminist theory. Contributors: Michael Awkward, Susan Bordo, Harry Brod, Tom Digby, Judith K. Gardiner, C. Jacob Hale, Sandra Harding, Patrick Hopkins, Joy James, David Kahane, Michael Kimmel, Gary Lemons, Larry May, Brian Pronger, Henry Rubin, Richard Schmitt, James P. Sterba, Laurence Mordekhai Thomas, and Thomas E. Wartenberg.

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

Author : Paul Allain,Jen Harvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317698203

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance by Paul Allain,Jen Harvie Pdf

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? What events, people, practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first century? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers to these big questions. It provides an analytical, informative and engaging introduction to important people, companies, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Each entry includes crucial historical and contextual information, extensive cross-referencing, detailed analysis and an annotated bibliography. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance is a perfect reference guide for the keen student.

Latina Performance

Author : Alicia Arrizón
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253028150

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A study exploring the role of Latina women in theater performance, literature, and criticism. Arrizón’s examination of Latina performance spans the twentieth century, beginning with oral traditions of corrido and revistas. She examines the soldadera and later theatrical personalities such as La Chata Noloesca and contemporary performance artist Carmelita Tropicana. Latina Performance considers the emergence of Latina aesthetics developed in the United States, but simultaneously linked with Latin America. As dramatists, performance artists, protagonists, and/or cultural critics, the women Arrizón examines in this book draw attention to their own divided position. They are neither Latin American nor Anglo, neither third- or first-world; they are feminists, but not quite “American style.” This in-between-ness is precisely what has created Latina performance and performance studies, and has made “Latina” an allegory for dual national and artistic identities. “Alicia Arrizón’s Latina Performance is a truly innovative and important contribution to Latino Studies as well as to theater and performance studies.” —Diana Taylor, New York University “Arrizón’s . . . important book revolves around the complex issues of identity formation and power relations for US women performers of Latin American descent. . . . Valuable for anyone interested in theater history and criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies with attention to Mexican American, Chicana/o, and Latina/o studies. Upper—division undergraduates through professionals.” —E. C. Ramirez, Choice

Feminism and Theatre

Author : Sue-Ellen Case,Bryan Reynolds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316515

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Feminism and Theatre by Sue-Ellen Case,Bryan Reynolds Pdf

This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre. The reissued edition features a new Foreword by Elaine Aston who examines the context in which Case's book was written, the influence it has had, subsequent developments in the field and the continued importance of the work.

Graffiti Grrlz

Author : Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479821334

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Graffiti Grrlz by Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón Pdf

An inside look at women graffiti artists around the world Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be, and, despite the artists’ anonymity, graffiti subculture is seen as a “boys club,” where the presence of the graffiti girl is almost unimaginable. In Graffiti Grrlz, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón interrupts this stereotype and introduces us to the world of women graffiti artists. Drawing on the lives of over 100 women in 23 countries, Pabón-Colón argues that graffiti art is an unrecognized but crucial space for the performance of feminism. She demonstrates how it builds communities of artists, reconceptualizes the Hip Hop masculinity of these spaces, and rejects notions of “girl power.” Graffiti Grrlz also unpacks the digital side of Hip Hop graffiti subculture and considers how it widens the presence of the woman graffiti artist and broadens her networks, which leads to the formation of all-girl graffiti crews or the organization of all-girl painting sessions. A rich and engaging look at women artists in a male-dominated subculture, Graffiti Grrlz reconsiders the intersections of feminism, hip hop, and youth performance and establishes graffiti art as a game that anyone can play.

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472081608

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The Feminist Spectator as Critic by Jill Dolan Pdf

Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance