Analysing Gender in Performance

lt;p>Cathy Leeney is Research Active Assistant Professor in Drama Studies, University College Dublin's School of English, Drama and Film. Her teaching, research and publications have been in Gender in Performance, Women in Irish Theatre, Irish Theatre Practices, Phenomenology and Performance, Feminism in Theatre and Staging Practices.

J. Paul Halferty is Assistant Professor in Drama Studies at University College Dublin. His research on queer theatre and performance in Canada and Ireland has been published in various journals and anthologies.

1 Introduction.- Part I 1970s-1990s.- 2 Pina Bausch's Kontakthof: Choreographies of Gender and Costume.- 3 Queer Becomings: The Ridiculous Theatrical Company's Camille and Split Britches/Bloolips' Belle Reprieve.- 4 Théâtre du Soleil and Ariane Mnouchkine: Living and Performing Gender Politics.- 5 Nora, Lucia, and Lear: Gender and Performance at Mabou Mines.- 6 Freaks and Not Freaks: Theatre and the Making of Crip Identity.- 7 Fires in the Mirror: Representations of Race, Gender and Class in Anna Deavere Smith's Search for American Character.- Part II Interruption: Artists Speak About Their Work.- 8 Black Women Performers: 'I Don't Want to Do Anything Else'.- 9 Trans-body-text: Exploring Performance Disruptions, a Discussion with Lazlo Pearlman.- 10 Embodied and En-sited Performance: Reflections on Gender in Cooking Miss Julie/Miss Julie Cooks and March of Women.- 11 A Manifesto of Living Self-portraiture (Identity,Transformation, and Performance).- Part III 2000s-2020s.- 12 Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, or Sexuality and Gender in Non-binary Times.- 13 Gender and the Aesthetics of Occupation: Making Room forWomen's Labour at the Theatre.- 14 Performing Reproduction in an Age of Overproduction: Environmental Installations by Ai Hasegawa.- 15 Loose Wrists: Camp and Intersectional Politics in the Works of Cazwell, Todrick Hall, and Big Freedia.- 16 Riotous Assembly: Performing Gender and Social Justice in thisispopbaby's RIOT.- 17 From Gimmick Casting to Standard Practice: Re-gendering Shakespeare in Performance.- 18 'Women's Business': Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife and the Reclamation of Black Australian History.- 19 Gender-Assemblages: The Scenographics of Sin Wai Kin.