Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories
- ISBN-10
- 041514759X
- ISBN-13
- 9780415147590
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 187
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Peggy Phelan
Description
Experimental and theoretically informed, Mourning Sex advances performance theory in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies.
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