Staging Queer Feminisms

Sarah French is Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she completed her PhD in Creative Arts. She has lectured in Theatre and Cinema Studies and published in the areas of feminist theatre and performance, film and philosophy, television studies and higher education. This is her first book.

• 1. Introduction: Staging Queer Feminisms.- 2. Pleasure, Pain and the Politics of Affect: Moira Finucane’s Gotharama and The Feast of Argentina Gina Catalina.- 3. Queer Femme Drag and Female Narcissism in Yana Alana’s Between the Cracks.- 4. Disidentifying with ‘The Good Indigenous Citizen’: Constantina Bush and Blak Cabaret.- 5. Queering History, Race and Nation in Sisters Grimm’s Summertime in the Garden of Eden and The Sovereign Wife.- 6. Spectacle, Community and Memory in the Feminist Performance Art of Brown Council.- 7. Radical Feminist Adaptation in The Rabble’s Orlando, Story of O and Frankenstein.- 8. ‘Fighting the Power Never Tasted So Sweet’: Hot Brown Honey and Concluding Remarks.- Bibliography.- Index.-