Staging Femininities: Performance and Performativity
- ISBN-10
- 0719052629
- ISBN-13
- 9780719052620
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Author
- Geraldine Harris
Description
This work focuses on the work of performance artists Rose English, Bobby Baker, and Annie Sprinkle as a means of explicating and examining some of the most influential thinking on the politics of identity produced in the 1980s and 1990s.
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