Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Staging Queer Feminisms.- 2. Pleasure, Pain and the Politics of Affect: Moira Finucane’s Gotharama and The Feast of Argentina Gina Catalina.- 3. Queer Femme Drag and Female Narcissism in Yana Alana’s Between the Cracks.- 4. Disidentifying with ‘The Good Indigenous Citizen’: Constantina Bush and Blak Cabaret.- 5. Queering History, Race and Nation in Sisters Grimm’s Summertime in the Garden of Eden and The Sovereign Wife.- 6. Spectacle, Community and Memory in the Feminist Performance Art of Brown Council.- 7. Radical Feminist Adaptation in The Rabble’s Orlando, Story of O and Frankenstein.- 8. ‘Fighting the Power Never Tasted So Sweet’: Hot Brown Honey and Concluding Remarks.- Bibliography.- Index.-

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"Sarah French's landmark book astutely frames twenty-first-century performance considered queer and feminist within an artistic category in its own right. It is very exciting to read about these theatrically accomplished but challenging innovative performances, and the complex ways in which they are meaningful. Just as these performances merit thorough investigation, this important book equally deserves the serious attention of a wide readership." (Peta Tait, La Trobe University, Australia) "Sarah French's book provides a compelling insight into ten years of vital, subversive, genre-defying Australian performance. She brings the anarchic energy of the performances alive and frames her persuasive analysis within appropriate intersectional feminist and postcolonial frameworks." (Sarah Gorman, University of Roehampton, UK)

About the Author

Sarah French is Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she completed her PhD in Creative Arts. She has lectured in Theatre and Cinema Studies and published in the areas of feminist theatre and performance, film and philosophy, television studies and higher education. This is her first book.