{"product_id":"sex-on-stage-performing-the-body-politic-9781350443617","title":"Sex on Stage: Performing the Body Politic","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces - from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to traditional theatre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex on Stage\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers how gender and sexuality collide on stage in dynamic, dramatic, and thought-provoking ways. By taking a broad view of sex and the stage, this book tracks influences across the underground, marginalised, and the mainstream, from 'high' contemporary live art to the 'low' of entertainment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross these mediums, the staging of sex pushes against decorums of respectability, instead flaunting the body to shock, to entertain, to tell stories, and to display a new kind of gender expression. The subjects and contributors included in this collection inhabit their bodies-in fact, demand the agency of the body-in self-authored ways. Gender and sexuality here are performative, and what comes into being challenges traditional constructions of both femininity and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison J. Carr \u003c\/b\u003eis an artist, mentor, and scholar. She works visually and creates performances, examining bodies on display and the contexts they perform in. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eViewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl: How Do I Look?\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and of the novella\u003ci\u003e The Night\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Sally \u003c\/b\u003eis a scholar and performing artist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNeo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). She produces and performs as Dr. Lucky.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179041681682,"sku":"9781350443617","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_128bddeb-dd95-4bb0-ba59-f31968e5a06d.jpg?v=1775634432","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sex-on-stage-performing-the-body-politic-9781350443617","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}