Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance

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Author: Jill Dolan

ISBN-10: 0472065300

ISBN-13: 9780472065301

Category: Theater - History & Criticism

Explores current controversies and significant concerns in feminist theater and performance.

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Explores current controversies and significant concerns in feminist theater and performance.

Introduction: Presence and Desire - Feminism and Theater Studies1Ch. 1Personal, Political, Polemical: Feminist Approaches to Politics and Theater43Ch. 2Staking Claims and Positions: The Women and Theatre Program, San Diego, and the Danger Zone69Ch. 3In Defense of the Discourse: Materialist Feminism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism...and Theory85Ch. 4Gender, Sexuality, and "My Life" in the (University) Theatre99Ch. 5Desire Cloaked in a Trenchcoat121Ch. 6Breaking the Code: Musings on Lesbian Sexuality and the Performer135Ch. 7Peeling Away the Tropes of Visibility: Lesbian Sexuality and Materialist Performance Practice151Ch. 8"Lesbian" Subjectivity in Realism: Dragging at the Margins of Structure and Ideology159Ch. 9The Body as Flesh: Or, the Danger of the Visual179Ch. 10Practicing Cultural Disruptions: Gay and Lesbian Representation and Sexuality189Index207