Performing Femininity

"Performing Femininity challenges both traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Communications scholar Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. In several narratives, Lockford uses these autoethno-graphic methods to rupture the conventional dichotomy of patriarchal versus feminist points of view, goading and challenging her audience as she breaches the borders of these typically opposed ideologies. She explores how both paradigms constrain women and how they are simultaneously enacted and subverted in the "performances" women play in their daily lives.

Performing Femininity will be a provocative read for the student of feminist thought, ethnography, and performance studies."--Jacket.