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245 0 0 _aCasting gender: women and performance in intercultural context/
_cedited by John T. Warren & Laura Lengel.
246 3 0 _aWomen and performance in intercultural context
260 _aNew York :
_bPeter Lang,
_cc2005.
300 _axii, 214 p.;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a1. Introduction: Casting Gender / Laura Lengel and John T. Warren -- 2. Theoretical Foundations and Intercultural Performance: (Re)Writing Nations on the Margins / E.J. Westlake -- 3. Native Women Playwrights: Cultural Historians, Revolutionary Healers / Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte -- 4. Fragments of Memory: Shadowboxing the Hyphen in Border Territory / Denise A. Menchaca -- 5. Maximum Intensity: Intercultural Performances of Doing Time / Jewel Seehaus-Fisher -- 6. Australia's Performing Older Women's Circus / Susan Hawthorne -- 7. A Cultural Performance of "Good" and "Bad": A Black "Hair-Story" / Leesha Marie Thrower -- 8. Breaking Frames and Burning Witches: From Local German Women to Intercultural Theatre / Alison M. Phipps -- 9. When White Girls Act Black: Reconsidering. Performances of Otherness / Elizabeth Whitney -- 10. Taking Ownership of 'Her indoors': Performativity as a Theatrical Dis-location of the British 'Housewife' / Helen Iball -- 11. Directing Performances of Border Crossing: An Allegory of Turnst(y)les / Amy K. Kilgard -- 12. Feminism and Performances in the Territory of ex-Yugoslavia / Marina Griznic -- 13. Casting into the Future / John T. Warren and Laura Lengel.
650 0 _aWomen
_xIdentity
650 0 _aSex role
_xCross-cultural studies.
650 0 _aFeminism
_xCross-cultural studies.
650 0 _aCommunication and culture.
700 _aLengel, Laura B
700 _aWarren, John T
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