Women in performance : repurposing failure /
"Women in Performance charts the renewed popularity of intersectional feminism, gender, race and identity politics in contemporary Western experimental theatre and performance through the featured artists' ability to strategically repurpose failure. Failure has provided a popular frame thr...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Female Performers
- Essentialism, Negativity and the Rebirth of Identity Politics
- Chapter 2 Taking Back Control: Invective, Irony and Inscrutability Chapter 3 Self-Care and Radical Softness: Refusing Neoliberal Resilience Chapter 4 Nightclubbing: Queer Heterotopia and Club Culture Chapter 5 Taking Pleasure: Binary Ambivalence and Transgression Chapter 6 Tempering Anger: Asserting the Right to Define as Comic Without Further Caveat Chapter 7 Afterword