Performing Feminisms
Subtitle: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801839689
Subjects: Feminism; Theatre, drama; Theory Of Literature; Women In Literature; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; Semiotics & Theory; Theater - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Feminism and theater; Feminist literary criticism
First sentence: There is a sense in which lesbian identity could be assumed, spoken, and articulated conceptually as political through feminism-and, current debates to wit, against feminism; in particular through and against the feminist critique of the Western discourse on love and sexuality, and therefore, to begin with, the rereading of psychoanalysis as a theory of sexuality and sexual difference.