| Description |
1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Representing the 'real' / Nina Rapi -- Living performance / Maya Chowdhry -- Another con-text / Barbra Egervary -- Vanishing in your face : embodiment and representation in lesbian dance performance / Petra Kuppers -- Shall we dance? Identification through linguistic tropes and performance / Anita Naoko-Pilgrim -- Performing the lesbian body -- the new wave / Julia Brosnan -- Get your feminism off my floppy : seedy ROMs and technical tales / Jools Gilson-Ellis -- Drama queens : ruling with a rod of irony / Joelle taylor -- From stage to screen and back : tash Fairbanks' Nocturne shedding some light on lesbian representation, and the performance of lesbian desire / Jan Goulden -- The laugh that dare not speak its name / Maria Esposito -- Fo(u)r women : the art of collaboration / Adeola Agbebiyi -- It's queer up north : production values: Sarah-Jane interviews Tanja Farman / Sarah-Jane -- Performing butch/femme theory / Lois Weaver -- Coming out at night -- performing as the lesbian vampire Rosie Lugosi / Rosie Garland -- Presentation of self as performance : the birth of Queenie aka Valerie Mason-John / Savitri Hensman -- Angela de Castro : clown in a cold country / Louise Carolin -- Feminine and masculine personnas in performance : Sade Huron : a drag queen with a dick / Michelle Atherton -- Drag kings and subjects / Diane Torr, Jane Czyzselska |
| Summary |
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines essays, dialogues, and performance texts from theater directors, performers, theorists, playwrights, and performance writers against social and cultural constructs and performance theories to produce a diverse and challenging portrait of lesbian live performance art. The book's penetrating scope c |
| Notes |
Co-published as Journal of lesbian studies, v. 2, no. 2/3, 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Lesbians.
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Lesbianism.
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Women -- Sexual behavior.
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Gender identity.
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Interpersonal relations.
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sex role.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Gender identity
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Interpersonal relations
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Lesbianism
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Lesbians
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Women -- Sexual behavior
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Lesbische liefde.
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Uitvoerende kunsten.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rapi, Nina
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Chowdhry, Maya
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| ISBN |
9781317790617 |
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1317790618 |
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9781317790600 |
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131779060X |
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