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Women's Studies

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Bodies on the Front Lines

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zien
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

By Margaret Cormier
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Music and Social Justice

How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Boy Heroines and Female Pages

By Michael Shapiro
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

Uncrossing the Borders

Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism

By Daphne Lei
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Traces the phenomenon of gendered border-crossing in Chinese opera, as dramatic theme and powerful political rhetoric

Embodied Reckonings

“Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress

By Elizabeth Son
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Korea, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

An illuminating study of how former Korean “comfort women” and their supporters have redressed history through protests, tribunals, theater, and memorial-building projects

Wendy Wasserstein

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Michigan Modern Dramatists

A feminist theater scholar and critic sheds new light on the work of playwright Wendy Wasserstein
 

Memories of the Revolution

The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater

Edited by Holly Hughes & Carmelita Tropicana
By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Scripts, interviews, photos, and critical commentary documenting the riotous beginnings of this long-lived experimental theater space for women 

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

2nd Edition

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies

This groundbreaking work in gender and performance, with a new introduction and updated bibliography

Lives in Play

Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage

By Ryan Claycomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies

Life writing's significance in women's theater and performance from the '70s to the present

Footpaths and Bridges

Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive

Edited by Rebecca Ann Howard & Shirley Annette Huston-Findley
Subjects: Native American Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

The first anthology to showcase the rich and diverse dramatic work of Native American women

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles

Investigating Gender as Performance

By Diane Torr
Edited by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

The gender-bending performances of Diane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops

Another Part of a Long Story

Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton

By William Davies King
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature

The long-neglected story of a literary marriage and the wife who helped America's first canonical playwright launch his career

Cutting Performances

Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

Cutting the Body

Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis

By Eliane DalMolin
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the notion of the cut in poetry, film, and psychoanalysis and how it might be linked to male creativity

Approaching the Millennium

Essays on Angels in America

Edited by Deborah R. Geis & Steven F. Kruger
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Leading critics, scholars, and theater practictioners consider the most talked-about play of the 1990s

Fornes

Theater in the Present Tense

By Diane Moroff
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

The first book-length study of avante-garde American dramatist Maria Irene Fornes.

Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism

By Gayle Austin
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance

Looks at post-war American drama by women, bridging the gap between theatrical theory and feminist theory

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