Gender and Sexuality: A Batch from TDR (MIT Press Batches)
“An event can be a performance in one circumstance and not be a performance in another; in both cases the event can be studied as performance,” writes Richard Schechner in his introduction to Gender and Sexuality: A Batch from TDR/The Drama Review. Bringing together articles spanning 30 years of TDR, this Batch focuses on performance through the lenses of gender, sexuality, and culture. Examined together, the articles reveal how feminist and gender studies theorists and sympathizers have shifted their subject matter, approach, and focus over time. The authors explore such topics as the history of cross-dressing in Chinese theatre, hijraism and Pakistani politics, and gender and racial triangulation in Japanese-American internment camps. Dig in.
About BATCHES
The BATCHES Series from the MIT Press features collections of journal articles on themes identified by and currently resonating with readers. The collections are curated by authoritative voices in the field: editors, authors, scholars, and practitioners. Each Batch is bundled for immediate download, and the series represents the rapid, responsive innovation that the MIT Press provides to its readership.
Contents
The WOW Cafe
Alisa Solomon
Brechtian Theory/Feminist Theory: Toward a Gestic Feminist Criticism
Elin Diamond
Movement and Gender: A Roundtable Discussion
Johanna Boyce, Ann Daly, Bill T. Jones, Carol Martin
Staging the Obscene Body
Elinor Fuchs
In Defense of the Discourse: Materialist Feminism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism… and Theory
Jill Dolan
Striking Their Own Poses: The History of Cross-Dressing on the Chinese Stage
Chou Hui-ling
Representing "Awarishness": Burlesque, Feminist Transgression, and the 19th-Century Pin-up
Maria-Elena Buszek

Hijraism: Jostling for a Third Space in Pakistani Politics
Claire Pamment
Brown Punk: Kalup Linzy's Musical Anticipations
Tavia Nyong'o
Blackface Behind Barbed Wire: Gender and Racial Triangulation in the Japanese American Internment Camps
Emily Roxworthy
Be About It: Graffiteras Performing Feminist Community
Jessica N. Pabón
“The Unnatural History and Petticoat Mystery of Boulton and Park”: A Victorian Sex Scandal and the Theatre Defense
Michelle Liu Carriger
Remembering Feminist Remimesis: A Riddle in Three Parts
Rebecca Schneider