Applied Theatre and Gender Justice : Imagination, Play, Movement (Hardcover)

Part 1: Igniting Eco-activism??1. Decolonizing the Conversation: Sustainable Development Performances in Egypt? 2. Patnaik’s Cyco Theatre in India: Grassroots Environmental and Gender Activism? 3. Resisting Ecological Colonialism in the Niger Delta: Indigenous Women and the Beni Kamai Festival Theatre??Part 2: Inspiring Playful Interventions??4. Picking up the Sequins: Drag Storytime Performances, Applied Theatre, and Queer Joy? 5. Facilitating Gender Awareness with First Drop Theatre: Applied Theatre in Indian Workplaces? 6. Yassified Shakespeare: The Case for TikTok as Applied Theatre??Part 3: Affecting Responses to Violence??7. Facilitating Afecto in Resistance to Violence: Patricia Ariza’s Work with Female Victims of Colombia’s Armed Conflict? 8. Moving Women from the Margins to the Center of History: After/Life?and the 1967 Detroit Rebellion? 9. No Seriously, Humor is Important??Part 4: Reclaiming Bodily Autonomy??10. The Billboard #TrustBlackWomen: Abortion as Self-Care? 11. Challenging Ableist Views of Motherhood: Mind The Gap’s Daughters of Fortune? 12. The Maternal Ground on Which I Stand: Developing A Solo Performance within the Harris Matriarchy??Part 5: Affirming Identity with Youth??13. Negotiating Gender (in)Justice: The Politics of Visibility in the Performing Justice Project? 14. Queering Playback Theatre? 15. ART Built on Trust and Solidarity: Creating Applied Theatre with Girls and Nonbinary Teens??Part 6: Expanding the Definitions??16. Performing Vulnerability, Voicing Resistance: Women’s Spoken Word Poetry in Trinidad and Tobago? 17. Tools for Equity and Collaboration? 18. The Art of Genderbending: Fighting Hegemonic Gender Ideology with Chinese Martial Arts