Staging femininities : performance and performativity

Title
  1. Staging femininities : performance and performativity / Geraldine Harris.
Published by
  1. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Author
  1. Harris, Geraldine.

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Description
  1. viii, 200 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Performance art
  2. Feminist theater > United States
  3. One-person shows (Performing arts)
  4. Feminist theater > Great Britain
  5. Women in the performing arts
Contents
  1. 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
  1. MWET 00-4885
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-194) and index.
Author
  1. Harris, Geraldine.
Title
  1. Staging femininities : performance and performativity / Geraldine Harris.
Imprint
  1. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-194) and index.
LCCN
  1. 99488414
ISBN
  1. 0719052629
  2. 0719052637 (pbk)
Research call number
  1. MWET 00-4885
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