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Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times /

This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Diamond, Elin; Varney, Denise; Amich, Candice
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Contemporary Performance InterActions
Subjects:
Social sciences
Performing Arts
Feminist theory
Sociology
Cultural studies
Sex Psychology
Gender expression
Gender identity
Gender Studies
Contemporary Theatre
Feminism
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59810-3
Summary: This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory follow the circulation of intensities of political impingements on bodies, subject
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XVIII, 315 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781137598103
CLC: D440
Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Affect, Performance and the Neoliberal State -- Chapter 1. The Affective Performance of State Love; Sue-Ellen Case -- Chapter 2. Not Now, Not Ever ; Denise Varney -- Chapter 3. Performing Sovereignty against Jurisprudential Death in an Australian State of Exception; Sandra D urso -- Chapter 4. Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan; Nobuko Anan -- Chapter 5. Nisti St rk s Affective Spaces in For Sweden With the Times (F r Sverige i tiden!); Christina Svens -- Part II. Violence and Performance Activism -- Chapter 6. Raging On; Diana Taylor -- Chapter 7. The Limits of Wit

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