This is a working bibliography that has informed the Sustaining Global Relations project – but we acknowledge that this list is incomplete and evolving.
References
Arons, Wendy. Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Woman’s Writing:The Impossible Act. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Blanco-Borelli, Melissa. She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Brody, Jennifer Devere. Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Brooks, Daphne. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Brown, Jayna. Babylon Girls: Black Women and the Shaping of the Modern. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Burton, Antoinette and Tony Ballantyne. World Histories from Below: Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present, 2nd Edition. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022.
Croft, Clare. Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Davis, Tracy. Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture. New York: Routledge, 1991.
— and Peter Marx, eds. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Dee Das, Joanna. Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora. New York, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Dudden, Faye E. Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Engel, Laura. Fashioning Celebrity: 18 Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011.
Farfan, Penny. Women, Modernism, and Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Fischer-Lichte, Erika, Małgorzata Sugiera, Torsten Jost, Holger Hartung, and Omid Soltani, eds. Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Foster, Susan Leigh, ed. Choreographing History. Bloomington: University of Indiana Bloomington Press, 1995.
Glenn, Susan. Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña: Empire’s Mistress: Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
Hamera, Judith. Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
Huyssen, Andreas. “Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other.” After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. 44-62.
Imada, Adria I. Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Kaplan, Caren, Norma Alarcón, Minoo Moallem, eds. Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Durham, Duke University Press, 1999.
Khubchandani, Kareem. Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Maddock Dillon, Elizabeth. New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Manning, Susan. Ecstasy and the Demon: The Dances of Mary Wigman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Mara, Kim. Strange Duets: Actresses and Empresarios in the American Theater, 1865-1913. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2006.
Marshall, Gail. Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
McMillan, Uri. Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. New York University Press, 2015.
Merill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Modleski, Tanya. “Femininity as Mas(s)querade: A Feminist Approach to Mass Culture.” Popular Culture: A Reader. Ed. Raiford Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 2005. 47-54.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham, Duke University Press, 2003.
Mullenix, Elisabeth Reitz. Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Nussbaum, Felicity. Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theatre. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Parreñas Shimizu, Celine. The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene. Durham: Duke University Press,2007.
Peña-Ovalle, Priscilla. Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom. Rutgers NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Perry, Gil, with Joseph Roach and Shearer West. The First Actresses: From Nell Gwynn to Sarah Siddons. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Preston, Carrie J. Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Pullen, Kirsten. Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Scott, Wallach Joan. Gender and the Politics of History, 30th Anniversary Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Schneider, Rebecca. The Explicit Body in Performance. New York, Routledge, 1997.
Schweitzer, Marlis. Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2020.
— and Laura Levin, eds. Performance Studies in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.
Sewell, Jan and Clare Smout. The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.
Son, Elizabeth. Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Weinbaum, Alys Eve, Madeleine Dong, The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
yamomo, meLê. Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.