Women and Improvisation: Transgression, Transformation and Transcendence
Description:
This feminist study examines women's use of improvisation in discovering, creating, and articulating various self-identities. To create a theory of identity formation, two feminist theoretical position, essentialism and poststructuralism, are analyzed and merged. This hybrid theory addresses the interplay between the self and society that women must recognize in order to form satisfying identities. Improvisational practices, involving bodily awareness and movement, are demonstrated to have the …
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Date:
August 1998
Creator:
Sears, Linda R. (Linda Roseanne)