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The purpose of this Handbook is to provide students with an
overview of key developments in queer and trans feminist theories
and their significance to the field of contemporary performance
studies. It presents new insights highlighting the ways in which
rigid or punishing notions of gender, sexuality and race continue
to flourish in systems of knowledge, faith and power which are
relevant to a new generation of queer and trans feminist performers
today. The guiding question for the Handbook is: How do queer and
trans feminist theories enhance our understanding of developments
in feminist performance today, and will this discussion give rise
to new ways of theorizing contemporary performance? As such, the
volume will survey a new generation of performers and theorists, as
well as senior scholars, who engage and redefine the limits of
performance. The chapters will demonstrate how intersectional,
queer and trans feminist theoretical tools support new analyses of
performance with a global focus. The primary audience will be
students of theatre/ performance studies as well as queer /gender
studies. The volume's contents suggest close links between the
formation of queer feminist identities alongside recent key
political developments with transnational resonances. Furthermore,
the emergence of new queer and trans feminist epistemologies
prompts a reorientation regarding performance and identities in a
21st-century context.
Living in the post-modern age, there is a growing sentiment of
disenchantment in relation to the most facile aspects of dogmatic
feminism. Nevertheless, the question of sexual difference still
remains. Sex, Breath and Force asks how we should approach such a
questioning today, given the fall of the great narratives and the
plethora of theoretical discourses in circulation. What are the
conditions of possibility for thinking of sexual difference as a
foundational problem in the age of technology? And, how do the
disciplines of social science, literary studies, philosophy, and
film studies answer this challenge? This collection of essays
provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference,
taking into account important shifts in feminist thought,
post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer
new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual
difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is
reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology,
epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass media.
Living in the post-modern age, there is a growing sentiment of
disenchantment in relation to the most facile aspects of dogmatic
feminism. Nevertheless, the question of sexual difference still
remains. Sex, Breath and Force asks how we should approach such a
questioning today, given the fall of the great narratives and the
plethora of theoretical discourses in circulation. What are the
conditions of possibility for thinking of sexual difference as a
foundational problem in the age of technology? And, how do the
disciplines of social science, literary studies, philosophy, and
film studies answer this challenge? This collection of essays
provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference,
taking into account important shifts in feminist thought,
post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer
new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual
difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is
reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology,
epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass media.
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