Books written by Peggy Phelan

Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

Experimental and theoretically informed, Mourning Sex advances performance theory in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies.
Acting Out: Feminist Performances

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Unmarked: The Politics of Performance

Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture.
Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory.
Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

I The title Mourning Sex is meant to respond to the end of a certain possibility opened up by what social historians and fast-typing journalists have called the “sexual revolution.” It never seemed to me that the "revolutionary" part of ...
The Ends of Performance

Only recently has the field given keen attention to the interpretive force and consequences of performance events, and it is these consequences that. The Ends of Performance articulates.
Contact Warhol: Photography Without End

This book examines and documents for the first time these contact sheets and photographs—Warhol's final body of work Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer analyze the contact sheets, never before seen, and their importance in Warhol's oeuvre.
Move: Choreographing You

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, 13 October 2010-9 January 2011; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 10 February-15 May 2011; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deusseldorf, 16 July-25 ...