Milestones in Feminist Performance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032389915 ISBN 13: 9781032389912

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual "origins" of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.

Designed for weekly use on performance studies courses, each of the book’s ten chapters highlights the key works of feminist performance, including performance art, live art, body art, activism, and theater. These milestones are all linked to acts of rupture and political reanimation, as artists broke with dominant understandings of gender, art, and value, that were taken to be insurmountable and static.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

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About the Author

Tiina Rosenberg is Professor Emerita in Theatre Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. Previously, she held professorships in gender studies at Stockholm and Lund Universities and served as the vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland). Rosenberg has extensively explored performing arts, feminism, and queer theory in her writings.

Fawzia Afzal-Khan is Professor of English and former Director of Women and Gender Studies (now Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies) at Montclair State University (US). Specializing in Feminist Theory, Cultural, Performance, and Postcolonial Studies, she designed and instructs MSU's inaugural course on Muslim women's writings, alongside an Honors course in Muslim Pop Culture.

Sandra D’Urso obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts and is an independent scholar in Melbourne (Australia). Their primary interests include feminist performance art, Australian theater, and contemporary performance art within states of exception.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032389915
• ISBN 13: 9781032389912
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Rosenberg Tiina, Afzal-Khan Fawzia, D’Urso Sandra