Sex on Stage: Performing the Body Politic

＂This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces - from burlesque to drag, to sex work to celebrity culture. This book uncovers how gender and sexuality collide on stage in dynamic, dramatic, and thought-provoking ways. By taking a broad view of sex and the stage, it tracks influences across the underground, marginalised, and the mainstream, from ’high’ contemporary live art to the ’low’ of entertainment. Includes interviews, memoir, photo essays, performance scripts, roundtable discussions, flash nonfiction, and the traditional essay＂--

Alison J. Carr is an artist and a lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is the author of Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl: How Do I Look? (2018). www.alisonjcarr.net
Lynn Sally is a writer and performance studies scholar. She is the author of Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation (2022). www.lynnsally.com