Feminist and Queer Performance

SUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in Theater and Director of the Center for Performance Studies at UCLA, USA.

• INTRODUCTIONPART I: QUEER THEORY AND PERFORMANCEMaking Butch: A Historical Memoir of 1970s Butch / FemmeTowards a Butch-Femme AestheticToward a Butch-Feminist Retro-FutureTracking the VampireMaking Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970'sPART II: FEMINIST PERFORMANCEFrom Split Subject to Split BritchesFeminism and Performance: A Post-Disciplinary CoupleThe Masked Activist: Greek Strategies for the StreetsPerforming Feminism on the International StageThe Screens of Time: Feminist Hopes and MemoirsPART III: GENDERED PERFORMANCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIESPerforming the Cyberbody on the Transnational StageSexing the Interface: Gender, Sex, and the Avatar.

'By way of her strong writing style, Case leaves the over-determined space of an abstracted feminism for an international and multidisciplinary stage, foregrounding questions of race, class and sexual identitiy that lead into her more recent work on a non-essentialist eco-feminism, outlined in the introduction to this volume. Case's insistence on interactivity and performativity across disciplines and cultural borders throughout these essays demonstrates how her commitment to socio-political themes on an inernational scale is part of a broader praxis.' - Fiona Anderson, Contemporary Theatre Review