Introduction / Alissa Mello and Claudia Orenstein -- Part I. Critical Perspectives on Women in Puppet Theatre. 1. The Monster and the Corpse: Puppetry and the Uncanniness of Gender Performance / Laura Purcell-Gates -- 2. Modes of Pleasure: Contemporary Feminist Erotic Puppet Theatre from İstanbul with Love / Deniz Başar -- 3. Women, Marriage, and Femininities : Kkokdu Gaksi Geori (or the "Love Triangle" Scene) in the Korean Traditional Puppet Play / Kyounghye Kwon -- 4. Erasure, Intervention, and Reconstruction: Imagining Women Puppeteers in Myanmar / Jennifer Goodlander -- Part II. Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations. 5. Werewere Liking, Vicky Tsikplonou, and Adama Lucie Bacco : Female Artists Appropriating Puppetry to Empower Women in West Africa / Heather Jeanne Denyer -- 6. Class, Gender, and Ritual Puppetry : Negotiating Revival for the Hakomawashi Puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan / Claudia Orenstein -- 7. Whispering Women, Shouting Puppets : Women and Puppetry in Iran / Salma Mohseni Ardehali -- 8. Suffragette Judy : Punch and Judy at Suffrage Fairs and Exhibitions in Edwardian London / Naomi Paxton -- Part III. Women Practitioners Speak. 9. Women and Objects / Ana Alvarado -- 10. An Expanded Language / Yngvild Aspeli -- 11. My Career as a Puppeteer in Taiwan / Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu -- 12. Bricolages / Theodora Skipitares - 13 -- Kenyan Women in Puppet Theater / Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka -- 14. Papermoon Puppet Theatre : The Journey of Making Contemporary Puppet Theatre Come Alive in The Land of Java / Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani -- 15. A Fragile Form / Janni Younge.