Staging femininities : performance and performativity
- Title
- Staging femininities : performance and performativity / Geraldine Harris.
- Published by
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 200 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction : political meanings : practices and theories, feminisms and postmodernisms -- The means of reproduction : the female performance art tradition, form, humour and ideology -- The size of the apparatus : drag, masquerade, mimicry, performativity and Bertolt Brecht -- Undecidable doublings : the performativity of performance in Rose English's The double wedding -- The active consumer : Bobby Baker's How to shop -- Becoming part of the show, the I of the beholder : Annie sprinkle's Post post porn modernist -- Conclusion: Closing words, opening questions : ethical activism, the politics of undecidability and Rose English's Tantamount Esperance.
- Call number
- MWET 00-4885
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-194) and index.
- Author
- Harris, Geraldine.
- Title
- Staging femininities : performance and performativity / Geraldine Harris.
- Imprint
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-194) and index.
- LCCN
- 99488414
- ISBN
- 0719052629
- 0719052637 (pbk)
- Research call number
- MWET 00-4885