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Presence and Desire - Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Paperback)
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Presence and Desire - Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Paperback)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender
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In Presence and Desire, Jill Dolan critically engages contemporary
feminist and poststructuralist theory in addressing the major
issues for women in theater. Taking sexuality as a primary category
of analysis throughout, Dolan examines a wide variety of
performances: academic and professional, mainstream and
subcultural, in formal settings and in everyday life. Dolan
explores the potential for performance strategies and theatrical
representation to intervene in normative constructs of sexuality
and gender, and to provoke American culture to examine and
reimagine its social relations. Each essay addresses a different
aspect of performance studies, such as U.S. feminist theater since
the 1960s, pornography and performance in various contexts, or the
potential to increase gay and lesbian visibility through theater
production. Performance is currently one of the most important
metaphors in both the humanities and gender studies. Presence and
Desire will be useful in theater studies, women's studies, and gay
and lesbian studies; it will interest anyone committed to cultural
criticism that blends theory and practice from a feminist
perspective.
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