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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Critical perspectives on women in puppet theatre; 1 The monster and the corpse: puppetry and the uncanniness of gender performance; 2 Modes of Pleasure: contemporary feminist erotic puppet theatre from İstanbul with love; 3 Women, marriage, and femininities: "Kkokdu Gaksi Geori" (or the "love triangle" scene) in the Korean traditional puppet play; 4 Erasure, intervention, and reconstruction: imagining women puppeteers in Myanmar |
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Part II Local contexts: challenges and transformations5 Werewere Liking, Vicky Tsikplonou, and Adama Lucie Bacco: female artists appropriating puppetry to empower women in West Africa; 6 Class, gender, and ritual puppetry: negotiating revival for the hakomawashi puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan; 7 Whispering women, shouting puppets: women and puppetry in Iran; 8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at suffrage fairs and exhibitions in Edwardian London; Part III Women practitioners speak; 9 Women and objects; 10 An expanded language; 11 A puppeteer in Taiwan; 12 Bricolages |
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13 Kenyan women in puppet theatre14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: the journey of making contemporary puppet theatre come alive in the land of Java; 15 A fragile form; Index |
| Summary |
Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts. It includes critical articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical moments, cultural contexts, and notions of "woman" on and off stage. Part I, "Critical Perspective," includes historical and contemporary analyses of women's roles in society, gender anxiety revealed through the unmarked puppet body, and sexual expression within oppressive social contexts. Part II, "Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations," investigates work of female practitioners within specific cultural contexts to illuminate how women are intervening in traditionally male spaces. Each chapter in Part II offers brief accounts of specific social histories, barriers, and gender biases that women have faced, and the opportunities afforded female creative leaders to appropriate, revive, and transform performance traditions. And in Part III, "Women Practitioners Speak," contemporary artists reflect on their experiences as female practitioners within the art of puppet theatre. Representing female writers and practitioners from across the globe, Women and Puppetry offers students and scholars a comprehensive interrogation of the challenges and opportunities that women face in this unique art form |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Women puppeteers.
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Puppet theater -- History
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Women in the theater.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Puppets & Puppetry.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Women in the theater
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Puppet theater
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Women puppeteers
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mello, Alissa, editor
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Orenstein, Claudia, ditor
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Astles, Cariad, editor
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| LC no. |
2020693401 |
| ISBN |
9781315225999 |
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1315225999 |
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9781351848794 |
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1351848798 |
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9781351848800 |
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1351848801 |
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9781351848787 |
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135184878X |
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