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This contribution to Theatre Studies explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980's. It highlights contact zones, conflict areas, and divergencies between the two theatre contexts with reference to historic, socio-political, and cultural clusters. Largely from a queer theory standpoint, this book reads several plays in their attempt to unmask exploiting mechanisms of sexuality and gender regulation. It focuses on alternative notions of soc...

Gender identity in the theater --- Feminism and theater --- Homosexuality in the theater --- Theater and society --- History --- Geschichte 1980-2010. --- Englisch.