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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
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QUEER ACTS
 
Edited by Jose Munoz and Amanda Barrett
 
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
Issue 15
 
We seek contributions for "Queer Acts," a forthcoming issue of Women &
Performance: a journal of feminist theory, which will expand and complicate the
relation between queer theory and performance. Following recent queer work,
this issue will explore the notion of the act as a critical paradigm. Given the
discursive momentum behind the word "queer" toward a white/male/middle
class alignment, there is a particularly urgent need to discuss the stakes in
 the
terminolgy debate across identifications including woman, feminist, lesbian, and
lesbian of color.
 
Possible areas of inquiry include: performance and performativity; theater,
theatricality, and popular culture (including film and television); "liveness"
 and
queer performance; queer ethnography, ethnomusicology, and architecture;
performance and cultural production during the HIV/AIDS pandemic;  theories of
relationality and anti-relationality; activism as political performance; queer
pedagogy; lesbian and gay performance historiography; transgendered
identity and performance.
 
We welcome work on popular culture, politics, theater, music, dance, visual
 arts,
film, video, and other representational practices, and especially encourage
work from/on diasporic performance, non-U.S. cultures and intersections
between racial and sexual minorities. We encourage experimental critical
writing that challenges traditional genres and scholarly conventions.
 
Articles should be 15-25 pages, double spaced; reviews should be 3-5 pages.
Please call for submission guidelines.
 
Submission deadline:  February 28, 1995.
 
Send inquiries and manuscripts to: June Reich, Managing Editor, Issue 15:
"Queer Acts," Women & Performance, Department of Performance Studies, 6th
Floor, N.Y.U., 721 Broadway, New York NY 10003. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (212) 998-1631. Fax: (212) 995-4060.