Feminist Futures?

Theatre, Performance, Theory
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4533-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Performance Interventions

This work is a timely contribution to the debates surrounding feminism, theatre and performance. The excellent, cross-generational mix of theatre scholars and practitioners engaging in lively, cutting-edge debates on critical topics make this essential reading for students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies as well as Gender Studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, G.

Aston, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Feminist Futures and the Possibilities of 'We'?; G.Harris & E.Aston Navigating Postfeminism: Writing Out of the Box; J.Reinelt Citizenship and Gender in Asian British Performance; M.Ponnuswaimi Curious Feminists; L.Hill & H.Paris 'Bad Girls' and 'Sick Boys': New Women Playwrights and the Future of Feminism; E.Aston Predicting the Past: Histories and Futures in the Work of Women Directors; A.Monks The Screens of Time: Feminist Memories and Hopes; S.Case Africa Lives on in We: Histories and Futures in the Work of Women Directors; SuAndi The Politics of the Personal: Autobiography in Performance; D.Heddon Performing in Glass: Reproduction, Technology, Performance and the Bio-spectacular; A.Furse 'It is Good to Look at One's Own Shadow': A Woman's International Theatre Festival and Questions for International Feminism; E.Aston, G.Harris & L.Simic Gendering Space: The Desert and the Psyche in Contemporary Australian Theatre; J.Tompkins Angry Again? - New York Women Artists and Feminist Futures; L.Champagne, C.Mac Low R.Margraff & F.Templeton Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

GERALDINE HARRIS is Professor of Theatre Studies at Lancaster University, UK. She has published widely on female performance and performativity including (1999). Her more recent book focuses on the politics and aesthetics of television drama. She also works as a devisor, writer, director and adapter.

ELAINE ASTON is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University, UK. She has published extensively on feminist theatre and performance, and her major works include (1997) and (2003). With Geraldine Harris, she leads the AHRC funded research project on .