Unmarked: The Politics of PerformanceUnmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film, theatre and anti-abortion demonstrations. |
Contents
Mapplethorpe Schor | 28 |
Yvonne Rainers The Man Who Envied Women | 71 |
Jennie Livingstons Paris Is Burning | 93 |
Tom Stoppards Hapgood | 112 |
discovering the body | 130 |
representation without | 146 |
notes on hope | 167 |
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