1st Edition

Milestones in Feminist Performance

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual "origins" of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.   Designed for weekly use on performance studies courses, each of the book’s ten chapters highlights the key works of feminist performance, including... Read more

INTRODUCTION

Tiina Rosenberg, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, and Sandra D’Urso

 

CHAPTER 1: The Postcolonial Turn in Feminist Theatre and Performance. Case Study: Pakistan

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

 

CHAPTER 2: Black Performance in Brazil. Black Skin, White Masks as Intersectional and Decolonial Feminist Performance Practice

Deise Faria Nunes

 

CHAPTER 3: French Afrofeminist Performance: A Rising Wave Since the 2020s 

Sophie Exbrayat

 

CHAPTER 4: Feminist Performance Art in the Americas

Candice Amich

 

CHAPTER 5: The "Arab Spring" as a Milestone in Feminist Performance

Joel Abdelmoez

 

CHAPTER 6: The Queer Turn: Gender as Performance

Tiina Rosenberg

 

CHAPTER 7: Larval Ecologies: Femi-Queer-Crip Performance Practice at the Edge of the Sixth Extinction

Anuj Vaidya

 

CHAPTER 8: Transfeminist Performance: A Liberatory Praxis

Anna Renée Winget

 

CHAPTER 9: Decolonizing the Posthuman in Feminist Performance: From Cyborgs to Inhuman and Non-Human Figures

Sandra D’Urso

 

CHAPTER 10: Do Feminist Milestones Burn? Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer in Times of War

Tatiana Klepikova

 

TIMELINE

GLOSSARY

Biography

Tiina Rosenberg is Professor Emerita in Theatre Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. Previously, she held professorships in gender studies at Stockholm and Lund Universities and served as the vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland). Rosenberg has extensively explored performing arts, feminism, and queer theory in her writings.

 

Fawzia Afzal-Khan is Professor of English and former Director of Women and Gender Studies (now Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies) at Montclair State University (US). Specializing in Feminist Theory, Cultural, Performance, and Postcolonial Studies, she designed and instructs MSU's inaugural course on Muslim women's writings, alongside an Honors course in Muslim Pop Culture.  

 

Sandra D’Urso obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts and is an independent scholar in Melbourne (Australia). Their primary interests include feminist performance art, Australian theater, and contemporary performance art within states of exception.