Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com The Feminist Spectator as Critic www.Ebook777.com Books by Jill Dolan The Feminist Spectator in Action: Feminist Criticism for the Stage and Screen A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw, edited by Jill Dolan Theatre & Sexuality Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance The Feminist Spectator as Critic The Feminist Spectator as Critic Second Edition Jill Dolan The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Copyright © 1988, 2012 by Jill Dolan Published by the University of Michigan Press 2012 All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid-free paper 2015 2014 2013 2012 4 3 2 1 ISBN 978-0-472-03519-9 (pbk.: alk paper) ISBN 978-0-472-02899-3 (e-book) www.Ebook777.com For my students, past, present, and future, who inspire all these thoughts and all my work Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction to the Second Edition xiii The Discourse of Feminisms: The Spectator and the Representation Feminism and the Canon: The Question of Universality 19 Ideology in Performance: Looking through the Male Gaze 41 The Dynamics of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Pornography and Performance 59 Cultural Feminism and the Feminine Aesthetic 83 Materialist Feminism: Apparatus-Based Theory and Practice 99 Afterword 119 Notes 123 Revised and Updated Bibliography 145 Index to the First Edition 165 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Preface This book is not meant to be a definitive study of feminist performance criticism Rather, in some ways, it is a historical accounting of the different methodological and ideological pathways this criticism has taken over the last twenty-odd years, illustrated here by critical case studies I not mean to neutralize my own critical stance by that caveat; the following pages should be clearly understood as representing my own methodological and ideological position as a materialist feminist critic The book is organized as a series of essays that refract around the central topic, which is detailed in chapter Taken together, the essays should provide a cumulative effect, rather than a necessarily linear one The last chapter, however, does represent work that I feel is the most stimulating and provocative of contemporary feminist performance criticism Writing for people interested in a feminist approach to theatre and performance is a challenging task, since that constituency is large and varied from theoretical, political, and ideological perspectives Any feminist endeavor in this area confronts the problem-and pleasure of diversity among its audience The Women and Theatre Program of the American Theatre in Higher Education organization, for example, is charged with appealing to academics and practitioners and a range of women who admit to very different stances vis-a-vis feminism Women & Performance Journal-with which I was involved as managing editor and cofounder at its inception in the Performance Studies Department at New York University-worried at the outset about providing a forum for all women interested in performance As I hope to clarify in this study, I believe that such a committedly nonpartisan approach inevitably butts against its own limitations How can an organization or a journal provide a kind of visionary leadership if it does not take a clear ideological and political stand on its own issues? 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Star.” Women and Performance 8.2 (1996): 225–39 Yoshimoto, Midori, ed “Women and Fluxus: Toward a Feminist Archive of Fluxus.” Special issue of Women and Performance 19.3 (2009) 164 Revised and Updated Bibliography Critical writing on feminist theatre and performance can regularly be found in these academic journals: Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Modern Drama Performance Research TDR: The Drama Review Text and Performance Quarterly Theatre Journal Theatre Research International Theatre Studies Theatre Survey Theatre Topics Women and Performance Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Index to the First Edition Acting technique: Brechtian, 114; experimental theatre and, 85; realism and, 61; Stanislavskian, 84 Actors Theatre of Louisville, 24, 38 ARe of Invention (Skipitares), III American drama: canonization, 19-20: father! son relationships, 33-36, 91-92; genre categorization, 32; mainstream theatre, 120 American Repertory Theatre, 21 American Theatre in Higher Education (American Theatre Association), Anthropology in women's theatre, 90-91 Apparatus: in postmodern performance, 43; in theory, 83,95, 101-13 Aristotle, 34, 38 Artaud, Antonin, 8, 85, 97, 106 At the Foot of the Mountain: company statement, 8, 85; at Women and Theatre Program Conference (1987), 92-95, 97 J\uoience: participation, 94, 120; support 92 Autobiography in performance, 62 Banal, Sherry Blakey, 92 Barnard Conference on Sexuality (1982), 77 Barthes, Roland, 57 Bates, Kathy, 24, 30 Benrnussa, Simone, 101-2, 103-6, 107-8 Berger, John, 52, 54 Birth rituals, 90 Blau, Herbert, 41 Body image: in lesbian theatre, 110; in 'night, Mother, 31-33; in performance art, 62-63 See also character appearance Boesing, Martha, 92-95 BO/l.lOir, Dr Schon (Rosenthal), 62 Book of Splendors (Foreman), 55-58 Brecht, Bertolt, 13, 14, 84; acting technique, 114; cultural feminist theatre and, 90; epic theatre, 106-8; and Richard Foreman, 44-48; gestus, 108, 116; historicization, 111-13; not but, 114-15 Brooks, Collette, 31, 39 Brustein, Robert, 21, 28 Busch, Charles, 120 Butch!femme: in 1920s-1950s, 105: in lesbian performance, 69, 73, 76-77; as representation, 116, 119 See also role-playing Camp, 112 Canonization: 5; deconstruction and, 39-40; female countercanons, 7,21,36; genre categories and, 31-34; in theatre, 19-21 Carr, c., 65-66 Case, Sue-Ellen: on canonization, 20, 96; on cultural feminism, 8-9,59-60; on liberal feminism 4-5; on strategy of appearance, 101, 116 Casting, 24, 110 Cha, Bernadette Hak Eun, 92 Chambers, Jane, 68, 109 Character: appearance, 24, 31-33, 110; in postmodernism, 42-43 Chekhov, Anton, 111-12 Chit Chat with Carmelita (Troyano), 69 70 Cinema, psychoanalysis and, 13-14,49 Cixous, Helene: Artaud and, 8; feminine aesthetic and, 87; Portrait of Dora, 101-3 Class, 93, 108 Club Chandalier 68 Club performance, 68 Commodification: Karen Finley and, 67; of men, 55; striptease and, 65; of women, 52 Community theatre, 69 Conduct of Life (Fornes), 108 Consciousness-raising: cultural feminist theatre and, 85-86; performance art and, 62; radical feminism ano, Coss, Clare, 88 Crimes of the Heart (Henley), 25-26, 35 Criticism: Aristotelian, 20, 34; mainstream, 19; www.Ebook777.com 166 Index value judgments and , 17 Cronenberg, David , 67 Cultural feminism: character and, 113; definition of, 3, 5- 10; experimental theatre and , 85-86; ' night, Mother and, 35; woman-identi fication and , 83-95 See also radical feminism Cultural nationalism, 86 Curb , Rosemary , , 84, 87 , 95 Daughters Cycle Trilogy, The (Women ' s Experimental Theatre) , 88-91 Daughters (Women ' s Experimental Theatre), 8891 Davy , Kate, 45 , 50 , 52 Death of a Salesman (Miller) , , 31-33 Defenders of the Code (Skipitares) , III de Lauretis, Teresa: on gender technology , 99101; on materialist feminism , 10; on narrative, 13; on representation, 115- 16, 119 Desert Hearts (Dietch) , 71 Desire: in Albert Nobbs , 103- 6; cultural feminism and, 60-61, 63-64; in Foreman , 49 , 53 ; Lacan and, 42; lesbians and, 78 Diamond, Elin , 105 , I i5 Direct address: in cultural feminist theatre, 89, 93; in lesbian performance , 73; in materialist feminist performance, 112; in realism, 110 Dietch, Donna , 71 Doane, Mary Ann, 13 , 48 Documentary in cultural feminist theatre , 93, 96 Drag , 70 , 104, 116 See also gender impersonation Dramaturgy in American theatre, 22 Dress Suits for Hire (Weaver, Shaw, Hughes), 120 Dworkin , Andrea, 60 tre , 108 ; in performance art , 62 Fantasy , 59, 67- 78 Fatale, Fanny, 79 Fear of Laughing (Forrester), 113 Feast or Famine (Women's Experimental Theatre),91 Feminism: definition of, See also cultural feminism, liberal feminism, materialist feminism Feral , Josette, 87, 89 , 97 Fetishism: in film theory , 13,48; Foreman and , 56 Film noir , 107 Finley , Karen, 65- 67 Fly, The (Cronenberg), 67 Food (Women's Experimentai Theatre), 91 Foodtalk (Women ' s Experimental Theatre), 91 Foreman, Richard , 12, IS ; Brecht and , 48; nudity and , 49-50, 52-53; political theatre and , 43-44; pornography and , 54; scenography and , 48, 49- 50; texts and , 47-48 Fornes, Maria Irene, 101, 108 , 110 Forrester, Allice , 71 , 113 Forte , Jeanie, 96 Freud , Sigmund , II ; fetishism and, 48; subjectivity and , 41-42 Gaze: the male , 14; Richard Foreman and, 4558; materialist feminism and , 114; psychoanalysis and, 102; striptease and , 65 Gender: definition of, 10, 63 ; as representation , 99, 116-17 Gender impersonation, 70, 71; in Albert Nobbs, 103-6 See also drag Genre categorization , 31-34 Gordon, Linda, 3, 6, 88 Grotowski , Jerzy , 85 Gussow , Mel , 19 , 37- 39 Hart , Lynda, 30 Heart of the Scorpion (Forrester) , 71 Henley, Beth , , 25 Hopper , Edward , 28 Howe, Tina, 37 Hughes , Holly , 70, 107 , 120 Hustler, 78-79 Echols, Alice,S , 59, 79 Ecriture feminine and the feminine aesthetic, 8, 99 , 101-2 Eidos , 64-65 Electra Speaks (Women 's Experimental Theatre) , 91 Erotica, 64-65 Esslin , Martin , 106 Ethnicity: Spiderwoman Theatre and, 71; Split Britches and, 76, 86 Evening of Disgusting Songs and Pukey Images, An (Spiderwoman) , 71 - 72 Exception and the Rule, Th e (Brecht) , 92 Experimental theatre: cultural feminism and , 85 ; Richard Foreman and , 43-44 Expressionism, 85 Jameson , Frederic , 47-48 , 55 Jenkins, Linda Walsh , 87 Jory, John, 38 Family: in American drama , 26, 33; in cultural feminist theatre , 89-90, 91-92; in lesbian thea- Kaplan , E Ann , 13 , 48 Kitchen , The, 65 Identity: in Helene Cixous, 103; mimesis and, 96; in postmodern performance , 42 Identity politics , 86, 92 Intertextuality , 70 Index 167 Kolodny, Annette, 32, 87-88 Kristeva, Julia, 99 LaMama,68 Labowitz, Leslie, 61 Lacan, Jacques, 12,83; desire and, 49; Richard Foreman and, 56; subjectivity and, 42 Lady Dick (Hughes), 107, 117 Landesman, Heidi, 27 Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Chambers), 10910 LeCompte, Elizabeth, 42 Lesbian playwrights, 73 Lesbians: coming-out stories, 109-10; cultural feminist theatre and, 97; desire and, 63, 70, 78; performance and, 67-77; pornography and, 77-80; as representation, 115-17; sexuality and, 59, 67-81,119 Levi-Strauss, Claude: division of labor, 112; kinship, 12 Liberal feminism: character and, 113; definition of, 4, 10; realism and, 84-85 Lippard, Lucy, 62 Living Theatre, The, 43, 85 MacKinnon, Catherine, 60 Maher, Antoinette, T., 92 Manheim, Kate, 50, 51-52, 52 Manheim, Nora, 50, 52 Mann, Emily, Margolin, Deborah, 71, 72-76 Marranca, Bonnie, 110 Masquerade, 119 Materialist feminism: definition of, 3, 10-16; and psychoanalysis, 11-13; visual pleasure and, 1I5 Matrilineage, 88, 93 Mayo, Lisa, 71 Miguel, Gloria, 71 Miguel, Muriel, 71 Miller, Arthur, 5, 31-33 Mimesis: in cultural feminist theatre, 83, 86, 89,95-97; and ideology, 16 Moore, Tom, 23, 37 Mother/daughter relationships in cultural feminist theatre, 9, 86, 88-89, 93; in 'night, Mother, 22, 33 Ms Magazine, 30, 35, 36 Mud (Fornes), 108-9 Mulvey, Laura: psychoanalysis and, 12-\3; visual pleasure and, 48-49, 114 Multiculturalism, 92-95 Music, 107 Myth: in cultural feminist theatre, 86; Spiderwoman Theatre and, 71; woman as, 57 Narrative: closure, 84, 103, 110; epic theatre and, 106-7; in Portrait of Dora, 102-3; postmodernism and, 42-43 Native Americans, 71, 72 Nestle, Joan, 117, 119 New Age, 114 New Right, 59 New York Magazine, 30 New York Times, 19,27 'night, Mother, 19-40 Norman, Marsha: 19-40; liberal feminism and, Nudity: Richard Foreman and, 50; men and, 5455; in performance art, 63, 77 On Our Backs, 79 Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, 43 Open Theatre, The, 43, 85 PAlN(T) (Foreman), 50, 53-54 Painting Churches, (Howe), 37 Parody, 55, 68-73 Pastiche, 55 Performance art: cultural feminism and, 60-68; men and, 62 Performance Group, The, 43, 85 Performing Arts Journal, 39 Persona, 67-77 Phallologocentricism, 12, 43, 91, 101 Phenomenology, 46-47, 57 Pitoniak, Anne, 24 Pluralism, 3, 21, 121 Popular culture, 24, 1I3 Pornography: antipornography feminism, 59-60, 80; Karen Finley and, 65; Richard Foreman and, 55; heterosexual females and, 63-64; lesbians and, 76-80; men and, 53-54 Portrait of Dora (Cixous), 102 Postmodernism: performance and, 15, 42; voyeurism and, 55 Power: Karen Finley and, 65-67; pornography and, 60, 76-79 Production: cultural, 15; feminism and, 120; modes of, 1I3 Proscenium staging, 46 Psychoanalysis: feminist film theory and, 1214; identification and, 14,72; materialist feminism and, 11-12; Portrait of Dora and, 101; subjectivity and, 42 Pulitzer Prize, 20, 22, 25, 32, 35 Puppets, 110, III Race, 86, 91,95, 108, 1I2 Radical feminism: definition of, See also cultural feminism Rape, 93 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com 168 Index Raped (At the Foot of the Mountain), 92-93 Realism: in American drama, 84; Brecht and, 106-7, 109; quotational, 110 Reception theory: author's intent, 22-23, 95,121; gender biases and, 19-21,27-34; horizon of expectations, 19, 23; process of, 121 Reinelt, Janelle, 108 Rhoda in Potatoland (Foreman), 45, 55-56 Rice, Rebecca, 92, 95 Rich, Frank, 19,28,32 Ritual, 43, 89-95 Role-playing: gender and, 63; pornography and, 77-80 Rosario, Carmen Maria, 92, 95 Rose, Phyllis Jane, 92-95 Rosenthal, Rachel, 62 Roth, Moira, 61 Rubin, Gayle, 6, 19,63 Sadomasochism, 65, 77-80 Samois,77 Sarita (Fornes), 108 Schechner, Richard, 43 Schneeman, Carolee, 83 Scopophilia, 13, 48 Scott, Trudy, 28, 35 Seduction: butch/femme and, 116; in Pukey Images, 72; textual, III Segal, Sondra, 88, 90, 97 Semiotics: female body as sign, 62, 83, 87, 99 Sexuality: compulsory heterosexuality, II, 63, 112, 116;definitionof, 10,63; in heterosexual cultural feminist performance art, 61-67; lesbians and, 67-81; sexual preference, 67-68 Shaw, Peggy, 71-72,114 Simon, John, 30 Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, The (Benmussa), 103-6, 108 Skipitares, Theodora, 72, III Sklar, Roberta, 39; Last Summer at Bluefish Cove and, 109-10; Women's Experimental Theatre and, 85, 88, 91 Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 3: The Cliffs (Foreman), 45,51-52 Spiderwoman Theatre, 71,102, Ill, 114 Spirituality, 61, 64, 81 Split Britches (Split Britches), 72 Split Britches, 71, 72-76, 101 Sproutime (Labowitz), 61 Stein, Gertrude, 45 Story of a Mother /I, The (At the Foot of the Mountain), 93-94, 97 Storytelling, 71, 93, 101, 104 Striptease, 65, 68, 77-80 Subjectivity: cultural feminist theatre and, 92; performance art and, 63; psychoanalysis and, 12; subject-formation, 42 Terkel, Studs, 93 Terry, Megan, 89 Theatre for the New City, 72 Themes in Drama Conference (1987), 10 Three Sisters, The (Chekhov), III Three Sisters from Here to There, The (Spiderwoman), 111-12 Transvestism, 120 Troyano, Alina (Carmelita Tropicana), 69, 6970 Universality: canonization and, 20; cultural feminist theatre and, 92-95; 'night, Mother and, 25-34; performance art and, 62 Up to and Including Her Limits (Schneeman), 83 Upwardly Mobile Home (Split Britches), 70, 72, 114 Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (Busch), 120 Village Voice, 65 Violence against women, 61, 67 Visual pleasure: Brecht and, 114; cultural feminist theatre and, 90; film 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