{"id":506,"date":"2014-10-07T16:17:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=506"},"modified":"2014-11-26T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:58:56","slug":"a-good-night-out-for-the-girls-popular-feminisms-in-theatre-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Theatre and Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/book-cover.JPG.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-507 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/book-cover.JPG.jpeg\" alt=\"book cover.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/book-cover.JPG.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/book-cover.JPG-129x203.jpeg 129w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/book-cover.JPG-272x428.jpeg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a>This book aims to \u2018expand\u2019 the scope of the sort of practices and theoretical approaches that have been the mainstay of feminist theatre and performance criticism for at least a&nbsp;decade.<\/p>\n<p>Less concerned with identifying and re-marking scholarly and genre boundaries, it seeks to identify and explore the sorts of concerns that appear to speak strongly to a&nbsp;large number of women across fields, forms, mediums, audiences and generations. This accepting that this \u2018speaking\u2019 may sometimes takes the form of dialogue, sometimes debate.<\/p>\n<p>While the main focus is on almost wholly overlooked female-authored and \u2018women-centred\u2019 works drawn from the popular mainstream and the commercial fringe, this book embraces experimental\u2019 practice where relevant. It seeks to explore these works in terms of continuities between second wave feminism and postfeminism, the academic and the popular sphere, rather than as is usually the case perceiving these ideas and sites as being \u2018in opposition\u2019 to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the objective is to explore the possibilities of \u2018affective solidarity\u2019 between women through the theatrical. The emphasis is largely on issues of femininity, embodiment and affect and the book draws on a&nbsp;wide number of theorists from Sonia Kruks to Sara Ahmed, Jacques Ranciere to Simone de Beauvoir. Works discussed range from New Burlesque performances, West End musicals, commercial touring shows in local \u2018civic\u2019 theatres and stand up comics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book aims to \u2018expand\u2019 the scope of the sort of practices and theoretical approaches that have been the mainstay of feminist theatre and performance criticism for at least a&nbsp;decade. Less concerned with identifying and re-marking scholarly and genre boundaries, it seeks to identify and explore the sorts of concerns&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","post_format-post-format-image","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}