UPC: 9783030855734 | Analysing Gender in Performance (Paperback)

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Analysing Gender in Performance brings together the fields of Gender Studies and Performance Analysis to explore how contemporary performance represents and interrogates gender. This edited collection includes a wide range of scholarly essays as well as artists voices and their accounts of their works and practices. The Introduction outlines the book s key approaches to concepts in English language gender discourses and gender s intersectionalities and sets out the approaches to performance analysis and methods of research employed by the various contributors. The book focuses on performances from the Global North staged over the past fifty years. Case studies are diverse ranging from site-specific dance theatre speculative drag installation and music video performances to Mabou Mines Churchill Shakespeare and Ibsen. Contributors explore how gender intersects with sexuality social class race ethnicity indigeneity culture and history. Read individually or in tension with one another the essays confront the contemporary complexities of analysing gender in performance.