Sex on Stage

Performing the Body Politic

Alison J Carr, Lynn Sally (Independent Scholar)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
22 May 2025

Performance art; Social issues & processes; Gender studies, gender groups; Sexual behaviour

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 traditional theatre.

Sex on Stage 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, this book tracks influences across the underground, marginalised, and the mainstream, from ‘high’ contemporary live art to the ‘low’ of entertainment.

Across these mediums, the staging of sex pushes against decorums of respectability, instead flaunting the body to shock, to entertain, to tell stories, and to display a new kind of gender expression. The subjects and contributors included in this collection inhabit their bodies—in fact, demand the agency of the body—in self-authored ways. Gender and sexuality here are performative, and what comes into being challenges traditional constructions of both femininity and sexuality.

Edited by: Alison J Carr, Lynn Sally (Independent Scholar)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350443617
ISBN 10: 1350443611
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alison J. Carr is an artist, mentor, and scholar. She works visually and creates performances, examining bodies on display and the contexts they perform in. She is the author of Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl: How Do I Look? (2018), and of the novella The Night (2023). Lynn Sally is a scholar and performing artist. She is the author of Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation (2022). She produces and performs as Dr. Lucky.

Reviews for Sex on Stage: Performing the Body Politic

This is an engaging and wide-ranging collection, exploring several of the many facets of sex on stage. The work included here is sharp, insightful, and well-written, and the text as a whole is a pleasure to read. * Helen Hester, University of West London, UK *