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• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• General Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: Locating Performance Studies
• Popular Performance
• 2 The Power Team: Muscular Christianity and the Spectacle of Conversion
• 3 Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent
• 4 Striptease: Desire, Mimetic Jeopardy, and Performing Spectators
• Performing Bodies/Performance Art
• 5 The Surgical Self: Body Alteration and Identity
• 6 Reconsidering Homophobia: Karen Finley’s Indiscretions
• Performing Histories/Memories
• 7 Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence, and Witness at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
• 8 Hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
• Performance and the World
• 9 The Street is the Stage
• 10 Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World
• 11 ‘Jewels Brought from Bondage’: Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity
• Performativity/Performance
• 12 Critically Queer
• 13 Choreographies of Gender
• Summaries and Notes
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Notes on Contributors
• Index