Introduction : gender and theatre / Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock -- Keywords : gender, trans, and intersectionality / Carla Neuss -- Framing theatre and gender through indigenous performance practices : a roundtable / Tammy Haili'ōpua Baker, Leslie Ishii, and Hanay Geiogamah, with Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock -- Gender as method : Brecht, Mao, and objects of history / Hentyle Yapp -- Introduction to part 2 / Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock -- Disobedient women and theatre historiography in India / Swati Arora -- Gender politics in the cabaret theatre of Jesusa Rodríguez and Astrid Hadad / Analola Santana -- Afro/Caribbean crossings : Gaël Octavia, Guy Régis Jr, and sex/gender/theatre work with heteroimperiality / Christian Flaugh -- The intersectional politics of Nakkiah Lui's Blackie Blackie Brown and How to Rule the World / Sarah French and Sandra D'Urso -- Uncanny masculinity : disrupting white male privilege in two contemporary Canadian Plays / Peter Kuling and Kim Solga -- False bound feet and forged paintings : propping up gender in early modern Chinese theatre / S. E. Kile -- Schrödinger's pussy : slave actors and fluid desire in early Roman comedy / Amy Richlin -- Introduction to part 3 : Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock -- Dead girl walking: girlhood and happy-endings in Heathers: The Musical / Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Lee Miller -- Theatrical Transing and the virtuosic self / Lazlo Pearlman -- Stage body, stage gender : Kabuki actors and print identity in early modern Japan (1600-1868) / Satoko Shimazaki -- Gender performance, sexual play, and early modern holiday games / Erika Lin -- 'Who's invited to the cookout?': the spectralization of Black women in theatre and new media / Kimberly Chantal Welch -- Cultural genitals and the emancipated fembot : performing gender, race, and technology in cyborg theatre / Evelyn Wan -- Introduction to part 4 / Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock -- Rethinking gender in the Hispanic Comedia / Barbara Fuchs -- Post-folkloric drag : México de colores and the theatricalization of gender / Enzo E. Vasquez Toral -- Staging femme excess in the work of Lucy McCormick, Selina Thompson, and Travis Alabanza /Sarah Gorman and Roberta Mock -- Performing vulnerable masculinity in Northern Ireland's post-conflict documentary theatre / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Becoming Afriqueer : conjuring alternative masculinities through site-specific performance / April Sizemore-Barber -- Towards a Trans theatre / Sylvan Oswald -- Annotated play lists / Devon Baur and Elizabeth Schiffler.
Summary:
"An authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. The volume examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance"-- Provided by publisher.
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