TY - BOOK AU - Lengel, Laura B AU - Warren, John T TI - Casting gender: women and performance in intercultural context SN - 0820474193 (pbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 305.42 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Peter Lang KW - Women KW - Identity KW - Sex role KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Feminism KW - Communication and culture N1 - 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 ER -