Gender in performance Book

Contents: Gender impersonation onstage: destroying or maintaining the mirror of gender roles? / Jill Dolan -- Mimesis and travesty in Iranian traditional theatre / William O. Beeman -- Lady and the tramp: drag differentials in the progressive era / Laurence Senelick -- The "magic if": conflicting performances of gender in the Takarazuka Revue of Japan / Jennifer Robertson -- Unveiling the word: science and narrative in transsexual striptease / Moe Meyer -- Between difference and indifference: Marianne Hoppe in Robert Wilson's Lear / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Les Filles Errantes: emancipated women at the Comedie-Italienne, 1683-1691 / Virginia Scott -- Women in the victorian theatre: images, illusions, realities / Joseph Donohue -- Shotgun wedlock: Annie Oakley's power politics in the wild west / Tracy C. Davis. Revolutionizing Galatea: iconic woman in early Soviet culture / Spencer Golub -- The Orient, the feminine: the use of interculturalism by the Theatre du Soleil / Adrian Kiernander -- Gender bending in Balinese performance / John Emigh and Jamer Hunt -- Tradition, challenge, and the backlash: gender education through dance / Judith Lynne Hanna -- Dance history and feminist theory: reconsidering Isadora Duncan and the male gaze / Ann Daly -- Speech and sexual difference in Mary Wigman's dance aesthetic / Karl Toepfer -- Freeing up: politics, gender, and theatrical form in the anglophone Caribbean / Elaine Savory Fido -- Gender is attitude / Megan Terry, Jo Ann Schmidman, Sora Kimberlain -- Kate Bornstein's gender and genre bending / Noreen C. Barnes -- The theatre of sexual initiation / John Preston.