This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual "origins" of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.

Designed for weekly use on performance studies courses, each of the book?s ten chapters highlights the key works of feminist performance, including performance art, live art, body art, activism, and theater. These milestones are all linked to acts of rupture and political reanimation, as artists broke with dominant understandings of gender, art, and value, that were taken to be insurmountable and static.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: The Postcolonial Turn In Feminist Theatre and Performance. Case Study: Pakistan

CHAPTER 2: Black Performance in Brazil. Black Skin, White Masks as Intersectional and Decolonial Feminist Performance Practice

CHAPTER 3: French Afrofeminist Performance: A Rising Wave Since the 2010s

CHAPTER 4: Feminist Performance Art in the Americas

CHAPTER 5: The ?Arab Spring? as a Milestone in Feminist Performance

CHAPTER 6:The Queer Turn: Gender as Performance

CHAPTER 7: Larval Ecologies: Femi-Queer-Crip Performance Practice at the Edge of the Sixth Extinction

CHAPTER 8: Transfeminist Performance: A Liberatory Praxis

CHAPTER 9: Decolonizing the Posthuman in Feminist Performance: From Cyborgs to Inhuman and Non-Human Figures

CHAPTER 10: Do Feminist Milestones Burn? Pussy Riot?s Punk Prayer in Times of War

TIMELINE

GLOSSARY