The Explicit Body in Performance

An in-depth and accessible study of the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art.

Rebecca Schneider lectures at Yale University is Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at Dartmouth College. She is a contributing editor to The Drama Review and has published essays in a range of performance anthologies.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Binary terror and the body made explicit; Chapter 2 Logic of the twister, eye of the storm; Chapter 3 Permission to see; Chapter 4 The secret's eye; Chapter 5 After us the savage goddess; Chapter 6 Seeing the big show; Epilog;