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

Senelick, Laurence (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0874516048 ISBN 13: 9780874516043

Published by Hanover: University Press of New England (for Tufts University), 1992, 1992

Language: English

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8vo, card covers, xxiv, 348pp. First edition. Near Fine: very clean, very bright, very solid.

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Title

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

Publisher

Hanover: University Press of New England (for Tufts University), 1992

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0874516048

ISBN 13

9780874516043

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

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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.

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

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