Women and puppetry : critical and historical investigations /: critical and historical investigations. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles.
• Editors: Mello, Alissa; Orenstein, Claudia; Astles, Cariad
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Critical perspectives on women in puppet theatre; 1 The monster and the corpse: puppetry and the uncanniness of gender performance; 2 Modes of Pleasure: contemporary feminist erotic puppet theatre from İstanbul with love; 3 Women, marriage, and femininities: "Kkokdu Gaksi Geori" (or the "love triangle" scene) in the Korean traditional puppet play; 4 Erasure, intervention, and reconstruction: imagining women puppeteers in Myanmar Part II Local contexts: challenges and transformations5 Werewere Liking, Vicky Tsikplonou, and Adama Lucie Bacco: female artists appropriating puppetry to empower women in West Africa; 6 Class, gender, and ritual puppetry: negotiating revival for the hakomawashi puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan; 7 Whispering women, shouting puppets: women and puppetry in Iran; 8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at suffrage fairs and exhibitions in Edwardian London; Part III Women practitioners speak; 9 Women and objects; 10 An expanded language; 11 A puppeteer in Taiwan; 12 Bricolages 13 Kenyan women in puppet theatre14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: the journey of making contemporary puppet theatre come alive in the land of Java; 15 A fragile form; Index
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.5/3; Women puppeteers; Puppet theater; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351848800; 1351848801; 9781315225999; 1315225999; 9781351848794; 1351848798; 9781351848787
• Related ISBNs: 135184878X; 9780415787383
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 10, 2019).
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