Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874516048 ISBN 13: 9780874516043

Publisher: Tufts Univ, 1992

Synopsis

Contents:
Gender impersonation onstage: destroying or maintaining the mirror of gender roles? / Jill Dolan --
Mimesis and travesty in Iranian traditional theatre / William O. Beeman --
Lady and the tramp: 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 word: science and narrative in transsexual striptease / Moe Meyer --
Between difference and indifference: Marianne Hoppe in Robert Wilson's Lear / Erika Fischer-Lichte --
Les Filles Errantes: emancipated women at the Comedie-Italienne, 1683-1691 / Virginia Scott --
Women in the victorian theatre: images, illusions, realities / Joseph Donohue --
Shotgun wedlock: Annie Oakley's power politics in the wild west / Tracy C. Davis. Revolutionizing Galatea: iconic woman in early Soviet culture / Spencer Golub --
The Orient, the feminine: 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 backlash: gender education through dance / Judith Lynne Hanna --
Dance history and feminist theory: reconsidering Isadora Duncan and the male gaze / Ann Daly --
Speech and sexual difference in Mary Wigman's dance aesthetic / Karl Toepfer --
Freeing up: 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.

About this title

From the Publisher

6 x 9 trim. 7 illus. LC 92-11968

From Library Journal

"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.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tufts Univ
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874516048
• ISBN 13: 9780874516043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Senelick Laurence