The feminist spectator as critic / Jill Dolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolan, Jill, 1957-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theater--United States.

Feminist theater.

Feminist criticism.

Theater audiences.

Feminism.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Feminist Spectator as Critic broke new ground as one of the pioneering books on feminist spectatorship, encouraging resistant readings to generate feminist meanings in performance. Approaching live spectatorship through a range of interdisciplinary methods, the book has been foundational in theater studies, performance studies, and gender/sexuality/women's studies. This updated and enlarged second edition celebrates the book's twenty-fifth anniversary with a substantial new introduction and up-to-the-moment bibliography, detailing the progress to date in gender equity in theater and the arts, and suggesting how far we have yet to go. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Discourse of Feminisms: The Spectator and the Representation 1

2 Feminism and the Canon: The Question of Universality 19

3 Ideology in Performance: Looking through the Male Gaze 41

4 The Dynamics of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Pornography and Performance 59

5 Cultural Feminism and the Feminine Aesthetic 83

6 Materialist Feminism: Apparatus-Based Theory and Practice 99.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472035199

9780472028993

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.5169198

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.