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.

INTRODUCTION.- PART I: QUEER THEORY AND PERFORMANCE.- Making Butch: A Historical Memoir of 1970s Butch / Femme.- Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic.- Toward a Butch-Feminist Retro-Future.- Tracking the Vampire.- Making Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970's.- PART II: FEMINIST PERFORMANCE.- From Split Subject to Split Britches.- Feminism and Performance: A Post-Disciplinary Couple.- The Masked Activist: Greek Strategies for the Streets.- Performing Feminism on the International Stage.- The Screens of Time: Feminist Hopes and Memoirs.- PART III: GENDERED PERFORMANCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES.- Performing the Cyberbody on the Transnational Stage.- Sexing the Interface: Gender, Sex, and the Avatar.