Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre
Unmaking Mimesisis a powerful critical and symptomatic performance that reveals in all their complexity the most pressing and problematic issues for feminist performance, on the page and the stage, today.–PAJ, May 1999...although Diamond's writing style is dense and often complex, to do the work of reading her book is an intellectual challenge that will reward those who think about and make theater with and innovative set of ideas- a set of ideas to be mulled over, transformed, and, most importantly, used.–Theater Magazine, 1998A necessary guide to the critical space between women's performance and the misreadings of their representation. Read as critical theory, or as essays on women's contemporary and historical performances, this work is indispensable for the study of representations of gender..–-Sue Ellen Case,University of California, Riverside