Performing feminisms : [electronic resource] feminist critical theory and theatre / edited by Sue-Ellen Case.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sexual indifference and lesbian representation / Teresa de Lauretis -- "Lesbian" subjectivity in realism : dragging at the margins of structure and ideology / Jill Dolan -- Frame-up : feminism, psychoanalysis, theatre / Barbara Freedman -- Hélène Cixous's 'Portrait de Dora' : the unseen and the un-scene / Sharon Willis -- Refusing the romanticism of identity : narrative interventions in Churchill, Benmussa, Duras / Elin Diamond -- The cult of true womanhood : toward a womanist attitude in African-American theatre / Glenda Dickerson -- 'A raisin in the sun' : anniversary of an American classic / Margaret Wilkerson -- The female subject in Chicano theatre : sexuality, "race," and class / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- Beyond Brecht : Britain's new feminist drama / Janelle Reinelt -- Feminism and the Jewish subject in the plays of Sachs, Atlan, and Schenkar / Vivian Patraka --

Unbodied figures of desire (on 'Troilus and Cressida) / Carol Cook -- Playing the woman's part : feminist criticism and Shakespearean performance / Lorraine Helms -- Anti-historians : women's roles in Shakespeare's histories / Phyllis Rackin -- Painting women : images of femininity in Jacobean tragedy / Laurie A. Finke -- Beatrice-Joanna and the rhetoric of love in 'The changeling' / Sara Eaton -- Women's performance art : feminism and postmodernism / Jeanie Forte -- Performative acts and gender constitution : an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler -- Gender ideology and dramatic convention in progressive era plays, 1890-1920 / Judith Stephens -- Travesty and transgression : transvesticism in Shakespeare, Brecht and Churchill / Anne Herrmann -- The female entertainment tradition in medieval Japan : the case of 'Asobi' / Ying-Hee Kim Kwon