The Feminist Spectator as CriticThe Feminist Spectator as Criticbroke new ground as one of the pioneering books on feminist spectatorship, encouraging resistant readings to generate feminist meanings in performance. Approaching live spectatorship through a range of interdisciplinary methods, the book has been foundational in theater studies, performance studies, and gender/sexuality/women's studies. This updated and enlarged second edition celebrates the book's twenty-fifth anniversary with a substantial new introduction and up-to-the-moment bibliography, detailing the progress to date in gender equity in theater and the arts, and suggesting how far we have yet to go. |
Contents
The Spectator and the Representation | 1 |
The Question of Universality | 19 |
Looking through the Male Gaze | 41 |
Sexuality and Gender in Pornography and Performance | 59 |
5 Cultural Feminism and the Feminine Aesthetic | 83 |
ApparatusBased Theory and Practice | 99 |
Afterword | 119 |
Notes | 123 |
Revised and Updated Bibliography | 145 |
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