Performing Feminisms by Sue-Ellen Case

The first collection of feminist theoretical writing on theater, applying feminist critical theory to dramatic texts and performance. Sue-Ellen Case's introduction surveys the field in the 1980s. Contributors draw on psychoanalytic and Lacanian theory, socialist feminism, lesbian theory and history: Teresa de Lauretis on sexual indifference and lesbian representation, Elin Diamond and Sharon Willis on identity, Glenda Dickerson on womanist African American theater, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano on the female subject in Chicano theater, and Judith Butler on gender as performative act.