Acting Out: Feminist Performances - Softcover

Lynda Hart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472064797 ISBN 13: 9780472064793

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1993

Synopsis

For more than two decades, feminist theater troupes, playwrights, comedians, and performance artists have challenged convention, raised consciousness, and provoked controversy. Acting Out is the first collection of essays to critically examine the impact that these performers, from the Women's Experimental Theater in the 1970s to contemporary artists such as Madonna, Karen Finley, Cherrie Moraga, Holly Hughes, and Anna Deavere Smith, have had on Anglo-American culture. These original essays cover a variety of subjects including alternative theater, the diversity of feminist aesthetic strategies, stand-up comedy and the politics of gender, lesbian sexuality, and the antifeminist, anti-abortion demonstrations of Operation Rescue. Both a critical account of contemporary feminist performance and an illustration of its depth and diversity, Acting Out is essential reading for anyone interested in feminist theory, sexual difference, queer theory, or the politics of contemporary performance. Contributors include Philip Auslander, C. Carr, Kate Davy, Joyce Devlin, Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, Hilary Harris, Lynda Hart, Lynda M. Hill, Julia Malnig, Vivian M. Patraka, Peggy Phelan, Janelle Reinelt, Sandra L. Richards, Amy Robinson, Judy C. Rosenthal, Rebecca Schneider, Raewyn Whyte, and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano.

About this title

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Acting Out The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga Full description

About the Author:

Lynda Hart is Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, and editor of Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre. Peggy Phelan is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and author of Unmarked: The Politics of Performance.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0472064797
• ISBN 13: 9780472064793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416