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This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to celebrity culture.Sex on Stage uncovers how gender and sexuality collide on stage in dynamic, dramatic, and thought-provoking ways. By taking a broad view of sex and the stage, this book tracks influences across the underground, marginalised, and the mainstream, from high' contemporary live art to the low' of entertainment. Across these mediums, the staging of sex pushes against decorums of respectability, instead flaunting the body to shock, to entertain, to tell stories, and to display a new kind of gender expression. The subjects and contributors included in this collection inhabit their bodiesin fact, demand the agency of the bodyin self-authored ways. Gender and sexuality here are performative, and what comes into being challenges

Sex on Stage

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1/17/2025
      ISBN-13 9781350443655
      978-1350443655
      ISBN-10 1350443654
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      Book Synopsis
      This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to celebrity culture.Sex on Stage uncovers how gender and sexuality collide on stage in dynamic, dramatic, and thought-provoking ways. By taking a broad view of sex and the stage, this book tracks influences across the underground, marginalised, and the mainstream, from high' contemporary live art to the low' of entertainment. Across these mediums, the staging of sex pushes against decorums of respectability, instead flaunting the body to shock, to entertain, to tell stories, and to display a new kind of gender expression. The subjects and contributors included in this collection inhabit their bodiesin fact, demand the agency of the bodyin self-authored ways. Gender and sexuality here are performative, and what comes into being challenges

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