Gender and Sexuality: A Batch from TDR

“An event can be a performance in one circumstance and not be a performance in another; in both cases the event can be studied as performance,” writes Richard Schechner in his introduction to Gender and A Batch from TDR/The Drama Review. Bringing together articles spanning 30 years of TDR, this Batch focuses on performance through the lenses of gender, sexuality, and culture. Examined together, the articles reveal how feminist and gender studies theorists and sympathizers have shifted their subject matter, approach, and focus over time. The authors explore such topics as the history of cross-dressing in Chinese theatre, hijraism and Pakistani politics, and gender and racial triangulation in Japanese-American internment camps. Dig in.About BATCHESThe BATCHES Series from the MIT Press features collections of journal articles on themes identified by and currently resonating with readers. The collections are curated by authoritative voices in the editors, authors, scholars, and practitioners. Each Batch is bundled for immediate download, and the series represents the rapid, responsive innovation that the MIT Press provides to its readership.Contents The WOW CafeAlisa SolomonBrechtian Theory/Feminist Toward a Gestic Feminist CriticismElin DiamondMovement and A Roundtable DiscussionJohanna Boyce, Ann Daly, Bill T. Jones, Carol MartinStaging the Obscene BodyElinor FuchsIn Defense of the Materialist Feminism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism… and TheoryJill DolanStriking Their Own The History of Cross-Dressing on the Chinese StageChou Hui-lingRepresenting "Awarishness": Burlesque, Feminist Transgression, and the 19th-Century Pin-upMaria-Elena Buszek Jostling for a Third Space in Pakistani PoliticsClaire PammentBrown Kalup Linzy's Musical AnticipationsTavia Nyong'oBlackface Behind Barbed Gender and Racial Triangulation in the Japanese American Internment CampsEmily RoxworthyBe About Graffiteras Performing Feminist CommunityJessica N. Pabón“The Unnatural History and Petticoat Mystery of Boulton and Park”: A Victorian Sex Scandal and the Theatre DefenseMichelle Liu CarrigerRemembering Feminist A Riddle in Three PartsRebecca Schneider