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9780759100732

Performing Femininity Rewriting Gender Identity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780759100732

  • ISBN10:

    075910073X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-09-15
  • Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Summary

Humorous yet touching, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender. As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect, Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful, the most abject circumstances: an image obsessed weight-watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. By exposing herself to the abject, she reclaims her body's symbolic value from society. This experimental autoethnography provides a provocative model to the ethnographer and rewards the student of gender studies with a rare perspective.

Author Biography

Lesa Lockford teaches courses in theatre and performance studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The Abject Body and Subversive Femininity
1(16)
Stepping on the Black Box: Kinesthetic Experience and the Transformation of Body Size
17(38)
``Would You Do It?'': Doing the Scholarly Striptease for Academic Gain
55(52)
Reading the Body: Consuming the Feminist Scholar
107(18)
Reading Pink: The Beauty Persuasion
125(20)
Thinking and Rethinking Tails, Tales, and Tellings
145(12)
Notes 157(10)
References 167(8)
About the Author 175

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