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.
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.
Lesa Lockford teaches courses in theatre and performance studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Currently, her scholarly interests are performance methods and composition, gender and sexuality, alternative forms of scholarly representation, and qualitative methods of inquiry. Journals in which her work has appeared include Text and Performance Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, Theatre Annual, and Women's Studies in Communication. She has performed her original creative texts and texts by others at regional and national academic conferences. Before returning to the Academy to pursue graduate studies, she trained and worked as a professional actor in the United Kingdom.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 The Abject Body and Subversive Femininity Chapter 2 Stepping on the Black Box: Kinesthetic Experience and the Transformation of Body Size Chapter 3 "Would You Do It?": Doing the Scholarly Striptease for Academic Gain Chapter 4 Reading the Body: Consuming the Feminist Scholar Chapter 5 Reading Pink: The Beauty Persuasion 6 Thinking and Rethinking Tails, Tales and Tellings
Chapter 1 The Abject Body and Subversive Femininity Chapter 2 Stepping on the Black Box: Kinesthetic Experience and the Transformation of Body Size Chapter 3 "Would You Do It?": Doing the Scholarly Striptease for Academic Gain Chapter 4 Reading the Body: Consuming the Feminist Scholar Chapter 5 Reading Pink: The Beauty Persuasion 6 Thinking and Rethinking Tails, Tales and Tellings
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