Overview
- Represents the first book on contemporary Australian feminist theatre and performance since 2005
- Presents new research and provides analysis of very recent performances
- Includes photographs of key works, and quotes from interviews with significant Australian theatre makers
Part of the book series: Contemporary Performance InterActions (CPI)
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About this book
This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexuality and gender in Australian theatre since 2005, this book reveals a resurgence of feminist themes in independent performance and explores the intersection of feminist and queer politics. Ranging across drag, burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance art, the book provides an accessible and engaging account of some of the most innovative, entertaining and politically subversive Australian theatrical works from the past decade.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“Sarah French’s landmark book astutely frames twenty-first-century performance considered queer and feminist within an artistic category in its own right. It is very exciting to read about these theatrically accomplished but challenging innovative performances, and the complex ways in which they are meaningful. Just as these performances merit thorough investigation, this important book equally deserves the serious attention of a wide readership.” (Peta Tait, La Trobe University, Australia)
“Sarah French’s book provides a compelling insight into ten years of vital, subversive, genre-defying Australian performance. She brings the anarchic energy of the performances alive and frames her persuasive analysis within appropriate intersectional feminist and postcolonial frameworks.” (Sarah Gorman, University of Roehampton, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sarah French is Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she completed her PhD in Creative Arts. She has lectured in Theatre and Cinema Studies and published in the areas of feminist theatre and performance, film and philosophy, television studies and higher education. This is her first book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Staging Queer Feminisms
Book Subtitle: Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015
Authors: Sarah French
Series Title: Contemporary Performance InterActions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46543-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46542-9Published: 25 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69082-4Published: 06 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46543-6Published: 13 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5870
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5889
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 263
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies