[Candrama] Call_Performing Girlhoods, Theatre Survey

[Marlis Schweitzer]

*Call for Papers*

Special Issue of /Theatre Survey/

*Performing Girlhoods *

Marlis Schweitzer, Associate Editor//

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/Theatre Survey /invites submissions for a special issue on performing 
girlhoods. Taking a cue from girlhood studies, this issue aims to 
investigate theatre’s role in the lived experiences of those who 
identify as girls (including trans individuals), while also analyzing 
girls’ contributions to professional and nonprofessional theatre and 
performance around the world. As historical subjects marginalized by age 
and gender, girls exist on the fringes of theatre and performance 
history, rarely popping into historical narratives except in exceptional 
situations, as with the phenomenal success of /Uncle Tom’s Cabin /in the 
late nineteenth century or the popularity of the Broadway musical 
/Wicked /in the twenty-first century. Yet there is ample evidence to 
suggest that girls have /always /been active consumers of and 
participants in theatrical entertainment, even when parents, custom, or 
the law forbade them from attending the theatre or performing onstage. 
So too theatrical representations of girlhood, from Shakespeare’s 
Rosalind to Small Alison in Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori’s /Fun 
Home//,/have longinformed the lived experiences of children of all 
genders and subsequently shaped performances of girlhood in sites 
ranging from the playground and the parlor to the schoolroom and the 
mall. As such, this issue seeks to move girls from the margins to the 
center of theatre and performance history. //

Possible questions for consideration include the following:

•How and in what contexts have girls used theatre or performance to 
assert social and/or political agency?

•How have theatrical representations of girlhood served to 
promote/contest dominant ideologies of gender, sexuality, race, class, 
ability, and/or nationality?

•In what ways have social institutions (e.g., government, religion, 
education, family) sought to influence girls’ consumption of and 
participation in theatre?

•To what theories and methodologies might theatre and performance 
studies scholars turn in order to address the “double marginalization” 
of girls?

•How might theatre and performance studies scholars engage 
with/advance/complicate developments in girlhood studies?

Please submit a full paper (25–40 pages double-spaced) and a brief 
abstract (ca. 250 words) via /Theatre Survey/’s manuscript submission 
site atScholarOne: /https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/theatresurvey/.

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*/Deadline:/**1 May 2018.*

Questions may be addressed to Special Issue Editor Marlis Schweitzer at 
*schweit at yorku.ca.***


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