Resources - publications
A selection of books, magazines and journals. Some specifically address the issue of women in theatre/performance/art; others are general performance studies or practice-based books for theatre and performance makers which will be of general interest to anyone interested in 'total theatre' practice.
Journals and Magazines
Total Theatre Magazine
Quarterly magazine published by Total Theatre Network, dedicated to physical and visual
theatre and performance. Focus on practice rather than theory
www.totaltheatre.org.uk
The Open Page
Published by The Magdalena Project; a journal of women's thoughts, questions and visions
for theatre.
The Open Page aims to support the reflections of women working in theatre
and to encourage them to write so as to start building their own memory and critical
perspective within theatre history.
www.themagdalenaproject.org/current/openpage.htm
Dance Theatre Journal
Dedicated to dance-theatre, with some cross-over into mime and physical theatre.
Published by Laban
www.laban.org
Animated
Published by Fpoundation for Community Dance with the by-line Making Dance Matter.
www.communitydance.org.uk
Mailout
The national magazine for developing participation in the arts
www.e-mailout.org
Puppet Notebook
Published by British Unima
www.unima.org.uk
Animations
Online magazine published by Puppet Centre Trust
www.puppetcentre.org.uk or www.animations-online.com
Writernet Bulletin
Published by writernet
www.writernet.org.uk
Performance Research Journal
Published by CPR and Routledge
'The Dynamic Interchange between Scholarship & Practice'
General Editor: Richard Gough.
Full details of current issues are available on the
dedicated Performance Research Journal web site at:
www.performance-research.net
TDR: The Drama Review
Published by The MIT Press
Edited by Richard Schechner, TDR provides scholarship on performances and their
social, economic and political context, wiith an emphasis on the experimental,
avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary.
www.mitpressjournals.org
n.paradoxa
International feminist art journal, Katy Deepwell (ed)
London: KT Press
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa/index.htm
Contemporary Theatre Review
UK: Harwood Academic Publishers
Books
Abramovic, Marina, Artist Body: performances, 1969-1998, All But the Obvious: writing, visual art, performance, video by lesbians, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Art exhibition, 1990
Allen, Paul, Art, Not Chance: nine artists diaries, London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2001
Allen, Richard, Frances Banner, Lizbeth Goodman, Linda Jones, Catherine King (Eds), Imaging Women: cultural representations and gender, UK: Polity Press, 1992
Arcade, Penny, Nicole Eisenman, Nan Goldin, Riot Grrrl, Deborah Levy, Peggy Phelan (contributors), Bad Girls, ICA, 1994
Banes, Sally, Dancing Women, London: Routledge, 1998
Bayton, Mavis, Frock Rock: women performing popular music, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
Bial, Henry ed. The Performance Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 2004
Blessing, Jennifer, Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1997
Blocker, Jane, Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performance and Exile, USA: Duke University Press, 1998
Bradley, Jyll, Girl, Watching, London: Oberon Books, 2003
Case, Sue Ellen, Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatres, Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1990
Case, Sue Ellen, Split Britches: lesbian practice/feminist performance, London: Routledge, 1996
Case, Sue Ellen, The Domain Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture, Indiana University Press, 1996
Chaikin, Joseph, The Presence of the Actor, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1972
Champagne, Leonora, Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists, USA: Theatre Communications Group, 1990
Chapkis, Wendy, Live sex acts: women perfoming erotic labour, London: Cassell, 1997
Cousin, Geraldine, Recording Women: a documentation of six theatre productions, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, Abingdon: Marston, 1999
Dehejia, Vidya (Ed), Representing the body: gender issues in Indian art, New Delhi: Kali for women in association with the Book Review Literary Trust, 1997
Derrida, Jacques, Writing and Difference, London: Routledge, 2001
Dolan, Jill, Presence & Desire: essays on gender, sexuality & performance, Ann Arbor / University of Michegan Press, 1993
Farfan, Penny, Women, modernism, and performance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Fruch, Joanna, Erotic Faculties, University of Califronia Press, 1996
Fusco, Coco, The bodies that were not ours & other writings, London: Routledge, 2001
Goodman, Lizbeth, Contemporary Feminist Theatres, London: Routledge, 1993
Goodman, Lizbeth, Feminist Stages: interviews with women in contemporary British Theatre, UK: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996
Goodman, Lizbeth (selected and introduced by), Mythic Women / Real Women: plays and performance pieces by women, London: Faber & Faber, 2000
Goodman, Lizbeth, Sexuality in Performance: replaying gender in theatre & culture, London: Routledge
Goodman, Lizbeth, The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, London: Routledge, 1998
Goodman, Lizbeth & J. De Gay (eds) The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance, London: Routledge, 2000
Gould, Polly, Manifestations: performing the word, 1998
Grotowski, Jerzy, Towards a Poor Theatre, ed. Eugenio Barba, London: Methuen Drama, 1991
Halprin, A. & Kaplan, R. (Ed.) Moving Towards Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance, Hanover and London, Wesleyan University Press, 1995
Hart, Lynda & Peggy Phelan (eds), Acting Out: Feminist Performances, Ann Arbor / University of Michigan Press, 1993
Heathfield, Adrian (ed) with Andrew Quick and Fiona Templeton, Shattered Anatomies: traces of the body in performance, UK: Arnolfini Live, 1997
Hinton, Laura & Cynthia Hogue (Ed), We who love to be astonished: experimental women's writing and performance poetics, Tuscaloosa; London: University of Alabama Press, c2002
Hyde, Sarah, Exhibiting Gender, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997
Jones, Amelia, Body Art / Performing the Subject, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998
Jones, Amelia (ed), The Feminism & Visual Culture Reader, London: Routledge, 2003
Jones, Amelia & Andrew Stephenson (eds), Performing the Body / Performing the Text, London: Routledge, 1999
Juno, Andrea, V. Vale (ed), Angry Women, USA: Re/Search Publications, 1991
Kaufmann, Linda S., Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture, University of California Press, 1993
Kelly, K (ed) Modern Drama by Women 1880s – 1930s, London: Routledge, 1996
Leigh Foster, Susan (ed), Corporealities: dancing knowledge, culture and power, London: Routledge, 1996
Liepe-Levinson, Katherine, Strip Show: performances of gender and desire, London: Routledge, 2002
Macdonald, Claire, Feminism and Performance Art: Histories and Strategies, London: Routledge, 2000
Mancio, Marie-Anne, Maps for Wayward Performers: feminist readings and contemporary Live Art practice, 1999
Marsh, Anne, Body & Self: Performance Art in Australia 1969-1992, Australia: OUP, 1993
Martin, Carol (ed) A Source Book of Feminist Theatre and Performance, London: Routledge, 1997
Montano, Linda M., Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000
O'Dell, Kathy, Contract with the Skin: masochism, performance art and the 1970s, Mineapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998
Pellegrini, Ann, Performance Anxieties: staging psychoanalysis, staging race, London: Routledge, 1997
Phelan, Peggy, Unmarked: the politics of performance, Routledge 1993
Phelan, Peggy, Mourning Sex: performing public memories, London: Routledge, 1997
Prenowitz, E., (ed) Selected Plays of Helene Cixous, London: Routledge, 2004
Ramirez, Elizabeth C., Chicanas/Latinas in American theatre: a history of performance, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2000
Rapi, Nina & Maya Chowdry (eds) Acts of passion: sexuality, gender & performance, Haworth Press, 1998
Reckitt, Helen (Ed) & Peggy Phelan (Survey), Art and Feminism, London: Phaidon, 2001
Roth, Moira, The Amazing Decade: Women and performance art in America 1979-1980, Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983
Scarry, Elaine, The body in Pain: the making and unmaking of the world, Oxford: Oxford Universoty Press, 1985
Schneemann, Carolee, Imaging her Erotics, London: The Mitt Press, 2002
Schneider, Rebecca, The Explicit Body in Performance, London: Routledge, 1997
Tufnell, Miranda, and Chris Crickmay, Body Space Image, Hampshire: Dance Books Ltd, 1990
Ugwu, Catherine, Lets get it on the Politics of Black Performance, Bay Press, 1995
Warr, Tracey (Ed), Amelia Jones (survey), The Artists Body, London: Phaidon, 2000
Zarrilli, Phillip B., ed. Acting (Re)considered: Theories and Practices, London: Routledge, 1995