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Staging Queer Feminisms

Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015

Sarah French

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Palgrave Macmillan UK img Link Publisher

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Theater, Ballett

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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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Drag, Burlesque, Norms, Cabaret, Race