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

by Laurence Senelick (Editor), Jill Dolan (Contributor), Adrian Kiernander (Contributor)

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.

Genres: Feminism

372 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1992

About the author

Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory at Tufts University and a recipient of the George Jean Nathan Prize for dramatic criticism. His award-winning books include The Age and Stage of George L. Fox; The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance; and The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre. He is also a professional actor, director, and translator who has staged a number of American premieres.

See Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series Volume 91, pg. 371-372 for an excellent overview.

See also for an interview: http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/....

Reviews

[Grace Cuddy · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting but not very helpful for my diss :/