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WOMEN AND PUPPETRY Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts. It includes critical articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical moments, cultural contexts, and notions of “woman” on and off stage. Part I, “Critical Perspectives,” includes historical and contemporary analyses of women’s roles in society, gender anxiety revealed through the unmarked puppet body, and sexual expression within oppressive social contexts. Part II, “Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations,” investigates work of female practitioners within specific cultural contexts to illuminate how women are intervening in traditionally male spaces. Each chapter in Part II offers brief accounts of specific social histories, barriers, and gender biases that women have faced, and the opportunities afforded female creative leaders to appropriate, revive, and transform performance traditions. In Part III, “Women Practitioners Speak,” contemporary artists reflect on their experiences as female practitioners within the art of puppet theatre. Representing female writers and practitioners from across the globe, Women and Puppetry offers students and scholars a comprehensive interrogation of the challenges and opportunities that women face in this unique art form. Alissa Mello is an independent theatre artist and scholar, whose research interests include women and performance, as well as practice and social justice. Her publications include a chapter in Undisciplining Dance in 9 Movements and 8 Stumbles (2018), and articles in Performance Research, Puppetry International, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Claudia Orenstein is professor of theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on puppetry, and her publications include The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (co-editor) and Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Cariad Astles is course leader for the BA in puppetry at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and lecturer in Drama at Exeter University, UK. She specializes in training and directing for puppetry performance and in the use of puppets within healthcare. Her publications include “Wood and Waterfall: Directing Puppet Theatre” in International Puppetry Research: Tracing Past and Present, “Puppetry and Dictatorship” in Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis and Extremity, and “Puppetry Training in Contemporary Live Theatre” in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. WOMEN AND PUPPETRY Critical and Historical Investigations Edited by Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-415-78738-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-78739-0 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-22599-9 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC We dedicate this book to the many women scholars and artists in the field of puppetry, past and present, who paved the way for our own work and who have contributed to making puppetry the rich and powerful art form that it is today. We also dedicate this book to our children, our other great works: Nina and Norah Caleb and Sophie Owain and Corin CONTENTS List of figures x Notes on contributors xii Foreword xvi Jane Taylor Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 Alissa Mello and Claudia Orenstein PART I Critical perspectives on women in puppet theatre 17 1 The monster and the corpse: puppetry and the uncanniness of gender performance 19 Laura Purcell-Gates 2 Modes of Pleasure: contemporary feminist erotic puppet theatre from İstanbul with love 35 Deniz Başar 3 Women, marriage, and femininities: “Kkokdu Gaksi Geori” (or the “love triangle” scene) in the Korean traditional puppet play 50 Kyounghye Kwon viii Contents 4 Erasure, intervention, and reconstruction: imagining women puppeteers in Myanmar 66 Jennifer Goodlander PART II Local contexts: challenges and transformations 83 5 Werewere Liking, Vicky Tsikplonou, and Adama Lucie Bacco: female artists appropriating puppetry to empower women in West Africa 85 Heather Jeanne Denyer 6 Class, gender, and ritual puppetry: negotiating revival for the hakomawashi puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan 101 Claudia Orenstein 7 Whispering women, shouting puppets: women and puppetry in Iran 115 Salma Mohseni Ardehali 8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at suffrage fairs and exhibitions in Edwardian London 126 Naomi Paxton PART III Women practitioners speak 141 9 Women and objects 143 Ana Alvarado 10 An expanded language 150 Yngvild Aspeli 11 A puppeteer in Taiwan 157 Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu 12 Bricolages 165 Theodora Skipitares 13 Kenyan women in puppet theatre 173 Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka Contents ix 14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: the journey of making contemporary puppet theatre come alive in the land of Java 179 Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani 15 A fragile form 189 Janni Younge Index 197
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