Feminist and Queer Performance

SUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in Theater and Director of the Center for Performance Studies at UCLA, USA.

'By way of her strong writing style, Case leaves the over-determined space of an abstracted feminism for an international and multidisciplinary stage, foregrounding questions of race, class and sexual identitiy that lead into her more recent work on a non-essentialist eco-feminism, outlined in the introduction to this volume. Case's insistence on interactivity and performativity across disciplines and cultural borders throughout these essays demonstrates how her commitment to socio-political themes on an inernational scale is part of a broader praxis.' - Fiona Anderson, Contemporary Theatre Review

• INTRODUCTIONPART I: QUEER THEORY AND PERFORMANCEMaking Butch: A Historical Memoir of 1970s Butch / FemmeTowards a Butch-Femme AestheticToward a Butch-Feminist Retro-FutureTracking the VampireMaking Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970'sPART II: FEMINIST PERFORMANCEFrom Split Subject to Split BritchesFeminism and Performance: A Post-Disciplinary CoupleThe Masked Activist: Greek Strategies for the StreetsPerforming Feminism on the International StageThe Screens of Time: Feminist Hopes and MemoirsPART III: GENDERED PERFORMANCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIESPerforming the Cyberbody on the Transnational StageSexing the Interface: Gender, Sex, and the Avatar.