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Feminism and performance theory share a focus on endangered and engendered live bodies. Both concern complex and highly contested discourses with immediate relevance to current issues of technology, politics, media, and the production of meaning in the field certainly testifies to the vitality and prominence of the feminist critique in performance studies. The works under consideration illustrate how the feminist critique of performance serves as a lens through which the intersection of sociology, semiotics, body theory, film studies, cultural studies, literary analysis, and psychoanalysis may be perceived.

Elaborates on the implications of globalization for gender issues. Details on gender regularization; Articulation of sexuality; Implications of the term `party' for feminists.