Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts

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.