Embodied Performances [electronic resource] : Sexuality, Gender, Bodies /
Allegranti, B.author.
With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Roehampton University, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Bodies as knowledge -- Embodying ethics -- The autobiographical body -- The relational body -- The political body -- Conclusions.
With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.
Dance.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Sociology.
Dance.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Gender Studies.