Staging International Feminisms [Paperback]

This is a landmark anthology of international feminist theatre research. A three-part structure orientates readers through Cartographies of feminist critical navigations of the global arena; the staging of feminist Interventions in a range of international contexts; and Manifestos for today's feminist practitioners, activists and academics.List of Illustrations Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; E.Aston & S-E.Case PART ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES Bloody Aprons: Suzan-Lori Parks, Deborah Warner and Feminist Performance in the Age of Globalization; E.Diamond Mind Yourself: On Soundwalking, Race and Gender; K.Shimakawa Globalizing Neoliberalism, Travelling Feminisms: Pollesch@Prater; K.Sieg The Queer Globe Itself; S-E.Case PART TWO: INTERVENTIONS Actress Stories: Binodini and Amal Allana; B.Dutt Stockholm Interventions: Feminist Activist Performance; T.Rosenberg Women's Writing for Performance Project: 'Making' a Feminist Intervention; E.Aston Reconstructing a Diasporic Female Self in O Kyong-Sook's Dictee - A Speaking Woman ; J-S.Shim Giving Back to Judith: Laura Curino's Una stanza tutta per me/ A Room of My Own ; R.Gandolfi Anticipating Globalization: Rosamond Gilder and the International Theatre Institute; C.Canning Exile and the Elusive Qualities of Time; J.Holledge Cultural Memory in El S?ptimo Cielo : An International Staging of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine ; N.Hernando-Real Stretching Medea to Postmodern Sensibilities; E.Sakellaridou A Journey Towards Sensitisation and Empowerment: Feminist Performance and Intervention Theatre in the City of Jaipur; A.Pande The Demon's Nuns: Petrona de la Cruz Cruz and Isabel Ju?rez Espinosa (Mexico); D.Taylor PART THREE: MANIFESTOS Reflection on the work that is being done within FOMMA with respect to women, gender and patriarchy, change, new generations and new technologies; I.J.Espinosa MAKE SOMETHING: a manifesto for making performance about making change; L.Weaver & P.Shaw Pakistani Muslim Theatre at Home anl“'