Moving Performances

"This well-researched and carefully conceptualized study establishes a crucial connection between women artists' cultural production and the political economy in which they worked. Rich and complex, Moving Performances will make a notable and distinct contribution to the existing scholarship."

~Mae Henderson, author of Speaking in Tongues & Dancing Diaspora: Black Women Writing and Performing

"This innovative study rethinks the racialized gendered subjectivities of women who not only remade themselves and forms of performance through modernism but relocated race, colonialism, and  sexuality through their very bodies."

~Eileen Boris, author of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

"The diva exudes singularity: whether she sings arias or popular songs, dances the ballet or the cakewalk, she always performs herself. This may explain why studies of female performers consider them so often in iconic isolation rather than as part of a broader celebrity culture. Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage remedies this problem with its analysis of four divas of early twentieth-century popular performance."

~Theatre Survey