Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser

Introduction / Arya Madhavan -- PART I. Erasure -- The woman thing: issues and advances for women in Southeast Asian traditions / Kathy Foley -- Women in a man’s world: gender and power in Japanese Noh theatre / Barbara Geilhorn -- "Just like a woman": female impersonation, gender construction and role playing in Begum Barve / Angelie Multani -- Feminist Asian cosmopolitanism in Singapore tango clubs / Shzr Ee Tan, Royal Holloway -- Stars on the rise: the Jingju actresses in Republican China / Xing Fan, University of Toronto -- PART II. Intervention -- Between roars and tears: towards the female Kathakali / Arya Madhavan -- "Ruined by several actresses who added lewd elements":the popularity of emerging actresses in Chinese Jingju (Beijing opera) and the censorship of two plays / Siyuan Liu -- Theatre of Kishida Rio: towards re-signification of "home" for women in Asia / Nobuko Anan -- Foreign female interventions in traditional Asian arts: Rebecca Teele and Cristina Formaggia / Margaret Coldiron -- An unexpected voice: performance, gender, and protecting tradition in Korean mask dance dramas / CedarBough T. Saeji -- PART III. Reconstruction -- Rasatrialogue: the politics of the female body in Asian performance / Sreenath Nair -- Nangiar Kuthu: interference, intervention and inheritance / Diane Daugherty -- Women in British Asian theatre / Graham Ley.