Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities

This introduction to the staging of genders and sexuality 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.

List of contents

Introduction
Emily A. Rollie
1. The Enduring Legacy of Ntozake Shange and Adrienne Kennedy
Martine Kei Green-Rogers
2. Staging Queer Feminisms and Legacies in North America
Bess Rowen
3. Making Lesbian-Feminist Theatre: Lois Weaver, Tammy Whynot, and the Legacy of Split Britches
Benjamin Gillespie
4. Harnessing the Political Power of Traditional Femininity in the 1980s: David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and Griselda Gambaro's Antígona furiosa
Rachel M.E. Wolfe
5. Staging Genders & Centering Women's Voices in West African Theatres
Heather Jeanne Denyer and Ngozi Udengwu
6. Crossing Borders and Transforming Gender Identities: Mahesh Dattani and Majula Padmanabhan
Jashodhara Sen
7. Staging Indigenous Women's Voices, Histories, and Power
Yvette Nolan and Emily A. Rollie
8. Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare's Sisters, Jogging, and Noura
Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson
9. Staging and Critiquing Masculinities: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman and Straight White Men
Ramón Esquivel
10. Refuting Narratives of Newness, Constructing Transgender Community
Nicolas Shannon Savard

About the author

Emily A. Rollie (PhD) is an associate professor of Theatre and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Central Washington University, USA.

Summary

This introduction to the staging of genders and sexuality 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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily A. Rollie
• Assisted by: Emily A. Rollie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032225159
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222515-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Milestones
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Performance Art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics