McNamara, Catherine (2012) Using Men's Changing Rooms When You Haven't Got a Penis: The Consitutive Potential of Performing Transgendered Masculinities. Performing Ethos : An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance, 2 (2). pp. 95-107. ISSN 1757-1979

Abstract

This article is a consideration of the ways that transgender performers and queer bodies in performance contribute to the ongoing formation of the category of gender. It explores the relationship between performing transgendered masculinities and the constitutive potential of the law (namely the Gender Recognition Act 2004) surrounding (trans)gender identity. The article looks at examples of performance by transgender performance artists, Jason Barker staged as part of the annual Transfabulous International Festival of Transgender Arts in 2006 and 2007 and Lazlo Pearlman in He Was a Sailor, the Sea Was Inside Him (Drill Hall, London, 2007). Trans and queer performance work is still, for the most part, left out of academic discourse within performance studies. Engaging with trans art and trans artists in relation to shifts in legislation around gender brings very specific readings into the public domain. This record of performance that takes place beyond the mainstream brings transgender and genderqueer performance practice to the fore.

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Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Transgender, queer performance, Gender Recognition Act (2004), transgender, queer performance, Transfabulous, Gender Recognition Act, Jason Barker, Lazlo Pearlman
Subjects:	Applied and Socially Engaged Theatre
Depositing User:	Ms Research Administrator
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2013 10:20
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2021 08:37
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URI:	https://crco.cssd.ac.uk/id/eprint/300