Introduction : Locating performance studies / Erin Striff -- The power team : muscular Christianity and the spectacle of conversion / Sharon Mazer -- Ethnological show business : footlighting the dark continent / Bernth Lindfors -- Striptease : desire, mimetic jeopardy, and performing spectators / Katherine Liepe-Levinson -- The surgical self : body alteration and identity / Philip Auslander -- Reconsidering homophobia : Karen Finley's indiscretions / Lynda Hart -- Spectacular suffering : performing presence, absence, and witness at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum / Vivian M. Patraka -- Hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas / Peggy Phelan -- The street is the stage / Richard Schechner -- Culture and performance in the circum-Atlantic world / Joseph Roach -- 'Jewels brought from bondage' : Black music and the politics of authenticity / Paul Gilroy -- Critically queer / Judith Butler --Choreographies of gender / Susan Leigh Foster.
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