Casting gender: women and performance in intercultural context/ Women and performance in intercultural context edited by John T. Warren & Laura Lengel. - New York : Peter Lang, c2005. - xii, 214 p.; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 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.

0820474193 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Women--Identity
Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.
Feminism--Cross-cultural studies.
Communication and culture.

305.42 / LEN/C