Women in Asian Performance

Women in Asian Performance offers an Asia-centric approach to performance, considering women's contributions to Asian performance traditions in their specific cultural, historical and performative contexts. _x005F_x000D_ Arya Madhavan brings together essays from leading scholars across the globe to make an exciting intervention into current aesthetic, political and cultural debates. Chapter-by-chapter, this volume re-examines the often centuries-old aesthetic theories and acting conventions which inform ideas of femininity and female representation onstage._x005F_x000D_ Divided into three parts, Women in Asian Performance addresses:_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Erasure: the history of the presence and absence of female bodies on Asian stages _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Intervention: the politics of female intervention into patriarchal performance genres_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Reconstruction: the strategies and methods adopted by women in redefining their performance practice_x005F_x000D_