Staging international feminisms / edited by Elaine Aston and Sue-Ellen Case.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aston, Elaine.

Case, Sue-Ellen.

Series:

Studies in international performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist criticism.

Feminist theater.

Physical Description:

xviii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Staging International Feminisms is a landmark anthology of international feminist theatre research - the first publication of its kind to bring feminist critical attention to theatre, theory, activitism and performance in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. A three-part structure orients readers through cartographies of feminist critical navigations of the global arena; the staging of feminist Interventions in a range of international contexts; and manifestos for today's feminist practitioners, activists and academics. Bringing together wide-ranging, accessible and lively contributions from feminist critics, writers and practitioners of international repute, Staging International Feminisms argues the necessity and urgency for feminism to be at work internationally. It is essential reading for all those with an interest in theatre, performance, cultural studies and women's studies.

Contents:

Part I Cartographies 7

2 Bloody Aprons: Suzan-Lori Parks, Deborah Warner and Feminist Performance in the Age of Globalisation / Elin Diamond 9

3 Mind Yourself: On Soundwalking, Race and Gender / Karen Shimakawa 23

4 Globalising Neoliberalism, Travelling Feminisms: Pollesch@Prater / Katrin Sieg 37

5 The Queer Globe Itself / Sue-Ellen Case 52

Part II Interventions 65

6 Actress Stories: Binodini and Amal Allana / Bishnupriya Dutt 67

7 Stockholm Interventions: Feminist Activist Performance / Tiina Rosenberg 76

8 Women's Writing for Performance Project: 'Making' a Feminist Intervention / Elaine Aston 86

9 Reconstructing a Diasporic Female Self in O Kyong-Sook's Dictee - A Speaking Woman / Jung-Soon Shim 95

10 Giving Back to Judith: Laura Curino's Una stanza tutta per me / A Room of My Own / Roberta Gandolfi 104

11 Anticipating Globalisation: Rosamond Gilder and the International Theatre Institute / Charlotte Canning 113

12 Exile and the Elusive Qualities of Time / Julie Holledge 121

13 Cultural Memory in El Septimo Cielo: An Inter-cultural Staging of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine / Noelia Hernando-Real 132

14 Stretching Medea to Postmodern Sensibilities / Elizabeth Sakellaridou 140

15 A Journey towards Sensitisation and Empowerment: Feminist Performance and Intervention Theatre in the City of Jaipur / Asha Pande 151

16 The Demon's Nuns: Petrona de la Cruz Cruz and Isabel Juarez Espinosa (Mexico) / Diana Taylor 161

Part III Manifestos 169

17 Reflection on the Work that is Being Done within FOMMA with Respect to Women, Gender and Patriarchy, Change, New Generations and New Technologies / Isabel Juarez Espinosa 171

18 Make Something: A Manifesto for Making Performance about Making Change / Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw 174

19 Pakistani Muslim Theatre at Home and Abroad: A Critical Manifesto for a Feminist Homecoming / Fawzia Afzal-Khan 184

20 Reflections on My Literary Performance Theatre: A Manifesto for Nigerian Women / Irene Isoken Salami-Agunloye 194

21 A Manifesto for an Israeli She Monster / Yael Feiler 203

22 Feminist Performance and Utopia: A Manifesto / Jill Dolan 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232).

ISBN:

9781403987013

1403987017

OCLC:

144227245