Milestones in Feminist Performance

by: Tiina Rosenberg (Editor),Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Editor),Sandra D’Urso (Editor)&0more

Publisher: Routledge

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2024/10/28

Language: English

Print Length: 272 pages

ISBN-10: 1032389915

ISBN-13: 9781032389912

Book Description

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual “origins” of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.Designed for weekly use on performance studies courses, each of the book’s ten chapters highlights the key works of feminist performance, including performance art, live art, body art, activism, and theater. These milestones are all linked to acts of rupture and political reanimation, as artists broke with dominant understandings of gender, art, and value, that were taken to be insurmountable and static.Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

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This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual “origins” of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.Designed for weekly use on performance studies courses, each of the book’s ten chapters highlights the key works of feminist performance, including performance art, live art, body art, activism, and theater. These milestones are all linked to acts of rupture and political reanimation, as artists broke with dominant understandings of gender, art, and value, that were taken to be insurmountable and static.Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.