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Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities
About this book
This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments.
Designed for weekly use in theatre studies, dramatic literature, or gender and performance studies courses, these ten milestones highlight women and writers of the global majority, supporting and amplifying voices that are key to the field and some that have typically been overlooked. From Paula Vogel, Split Britches, and Young Jean Lee to Werewere Liking, Mahesh Dattani, Yvette Nolan, and more, the chapters place artists' key works into conversation with one another, structurally offering an intersectional perspective on staging genders and sexualities.
Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Enduring Legacy of Ntozake Shange and Adrienne Kennedy
- 2 Staging Queer Feminisms and Legacies in North America
- 3 Making Lesbian-Feminist Theatre: Lois Weaver, Tammy WhyNot, and the Legacy of Split Britches
- 4 Harnessing the Political Power of Traditional Femininity in the 1980s: David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly and Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa
- 5 Staging Genders and Centering Women’s Voices in West African Theatres
- 6 Crossing Borders and Transforming Gender Identities: Mahesh Dattani and Manjula Padmanabhan
- 7 Staging Indigenous Women’s Voices, Histories, and Power
- 8 Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare’s Sisters, Jogging, and Noura
- 9 Staging and Critiquing Masculinities: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman and Straight White Men
- 10 Refuting Narratives of Newness, Constructing Transgender Community
- Glossary
- Key Moments in Time
- Index