ABSTRACT

Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. In beautiful prose, Felman invites us to watch her one woman show on the art of performance in today's classrooms. These essays take on the greatest hits of the academy: identity politics, sexual harrassment, academic censorship, and radical pedagogy. Felman's book is a performance not to be missed.

part |53 pages

Warm-Up

part |74 pages

Opening Night

chapter |26 pages

Gi Joe in the Last Row

Performing Masculinities

chapter |22 pages

Damsels in Distress

Performing Femininities

chapter |24 pages

A Classroom Named Desire

Academic Bodies in Motion

part |85 pages

Stage Notes