With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of pe
Embodied Performances: Sexuality, Gender, Bodies
β Scribed by Beatrice Allegranti (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Bodies as Knowledge....Pages 12-48
Embodying Ethics....Pages 49-75
The Autobiographical Body....Pages 76-116
The Relational Body....Pages 117-153
The Political Body....Pages 154-195
Conclusion....Pages 196-211
Back Matter....Pages 212-234
β¦ Subjects
Dance; Performing Arts; Theatre and Performance Studies; Gender Studies
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