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Synopsis
Gender impersonation destroying or maintaining the mirror of gender roles? / Jill Dolan --
Mimesis and travesty in Iranian traditional theatre / William O. Beeman --
Lady and the drag differentials in the progressive era / Laurence Senelick --
The "magic if": conflicting performances of gender in the Takarazuka Revue of Japan / Jennifer Robertson --
Unveiling the science and narrative in transsexual striptease / Moe Meyer --
Between difference and Marianne Hoppe in Robert Wilson's Lear / Erika Fischer-Lichte --
Les Filles emancipated women at the Comedie-Italienne, 1683-1691 / Virginia Scott --
Women in the victorian images, illusions, realities / Joseph Donohue --
Shotgun Annie Oakley's power politics in the wild west / Tracy C. Davis. Revolutionizing iconic woman in early Soviet culture / Spencer Golub --
The Orient, the the use of interculturalism by the Theatre du Soleil / Adrian Kiernander --
Gender bending in Balinese performance / John Emigh and Jamer Hunt --
Tradition, challenge, and the gender education through dance / Judith Lynne Hanna --
Dance history and feminist reconsidering Isadora Duncan and the male gaze / Ann Daly --
Speech and sexual difference in Mary Wigman's dance aesthetic / Karl Toepfer --
Freeing politics, gender, and theatrical form in the anglophone Caribbean / Elaine Savory Fido --
Gender is attitude / Megan Terry, Jo Ann Schmidman, Sora Kimberlain --
Kate Bornstein's gender and genre bending / Noreen C. Barnes --
The theatre of sexual initiation / John Preston.
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"Gender is performance," declares editor Senelick in the introduction, and the best essays in this collection are those that challenge cultural assumptions about representations of gender in art and life. Subjects range from Annie Oakley, Isadora Duncan, and turn-of-the-century transvestite star Julian Eltinge, through sexual role-playing in Balinese and Iranian folk theater, to how issues of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny are dealt with in the works of Robert Wilson, Kate Bornstein, The Omaha Magic Theatre, and Theatre du Soleil. Many of the pieces are simply ethnographic or historical reports, some of marginal interest. The few, however, that venture into original thought, such as John Preston's analysis of the gay male sex club The Mineshaft and Morris Meyer's deconstruction of transsexual surgery as theatrical event, are astonishing and exciting. For academically oriented performing arts, women's, and gay studies collections.
- Anne Sharp, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., Mich.
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Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts
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Tufts University Press,, 1992
ISBN 10: 0874515459
ISBN 13: 9780874515459
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