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Staging Queer Feminisms
Sarah French
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Description for Staging Queer Feminisms
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Performance Interactions. Num Pages: 261 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexuality and gender in Australian theatre since 2005, this book reveals a resurgence of feminist themes in independent performance and explores the intersection of feminist and queer politics. Ranging across drag, burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance art, the book provides ... Read more
This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexuality and gender in Australian theatre since 2005, this book reveals a resurgence of feminist themes in independent performance and explores the intersection of feminist and queer politics. Ranging across drag, burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance art, the book provides ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Performance Interactions
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137465429
SKU
V9781137465429
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Sarah French
Sarah French is Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she completed her PhD in Creative Arts. She has lectured in Theatre and Cinema Studies and published in the areas of feminist theatre and performance, film and philosophy, television studies and higher education. This is her first book.
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