Titlebook: Staging Queer Feminisms; Sexuality and Gender Sarah French Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Race.Drag.Burlesq

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Book 2017eer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexual

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,Pleasure, Pain and the Politics of Affect: Moira Finucane’s , and , model that gives focus to the embodied and experiential aspects of performance as well as their signifying properties. It suggests that by seeking to engage the spectator in moments of sensory experience and embodied intensity, Finucane’s works highlight the potential for affect to enhance the political function of performance.

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,Queer Femme Drag and Female Narcissism in Yana Alana’s ,ivity. Through her non-normative sexual identity and embodied queer acts, Yana Alana destabilises normative understandings of gender and sexuality, and employs female narcissism as a critical parody and tool of affirmative identity formation.

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Spectacle, Community and Memory in the Performance Art of Brown Council,y as an object of visual pleasure. However, they also reframe earlier feminist discourses, parodying the essentialist and polemical nature of much second-wave feminist performance art, and employ a critical queer ambiguity to open up a multiplicity of interpretations.

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,‘Fighting the Power Never Tasted So Sweet’: , and Concluding Remarks,book, including the resurgence of feminist politics in contemporary independent Australian performance, the queering of normative culture, focus on affect in performance, and the emphasis on gender performativity. It also raises challenges facing independent theatre in Australia, particularly as a result of recent funding cuts to the arts.

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,Queering History, Race and Nation in Sisters Grimm’s , and ,sogyny. By exploiting the challenge to gender authenticity central to drag performance, Sisters Grimm highlight the socially constructed and performative nature of all identity categories, especially that of race.

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