Overview

Transgendered playwright, performer, columnist, and sex worker Nina Arsenault has undergone more than sixty plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault, Judith Rudakoff brings together a diverse group of contributors, including artists, scholars, and Arsenault herself to offer an exploration of beauty, image, and the notion of queerness through the lens of Arsenault’s highly personal brand of performance art.Illustrated throughout with photographs of the artist’s transformation over the years and demonstrating her diversity of personae, this volume contributes to a deepening of our understanding of what it means to be a woman and what it means to be beautiful. Also included in this volume is the full script of Arsenault’s critically acclaimed stage play, The Silicone Diaries.

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Author:   Judith Rudakoff
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781841505718

ISBN 10:   1841505714
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Judith Rudakoff Part I: The Texts  Chapter 1: Affirming Identity with Your Friendly Neighbourhood Cyborg – Sky Gilbert Chapter 2: Unreal Beauty: Identification and Embodiment in Nina Arsenault’s “Self-Portraits” – J. Paul Halferty Chapter 3: Daughter of the Air: Three Acting Sessions and Nina Arsenault’s Imaginary Body – Cynthia Ashperger Chapter 4: Nina, Amber and the Evolution of a Commodified Sexual Being – Todd Klinck Chapter 5: Sexed Life is a Cabaret: The Body Politics of Nina Arsenault’s The Silicone Diaries – Frances J. Latchford Chapter 6: Chopping at the Sexy Bits: [Trans]cending the Body with Surgical Conundrums – J Mase III Chapter 7: Nina Arsenault: Fast Feminist Objet a – Shannon Bell Chapter 8: T he Artist as Complication: Nina Arsenault and the Morality of Beauty – Alistair Newton Chapter 9: Landscape with Yukon and Unnatural Beauty – Nina Arsenault Chapter 10: Performing the Prosthetics of Femininity: Nina Arsenault’s Transsexual Body as a Living Art Object – Benjamin Gillespie Chapter 11: Compelling Honesty: Searching for Authenticity in the Voice of Nina Arsenault – Eric Armstrong Chapter 12: Live in Your Blood: A Fragmentary Response to Nina Arsenault’s Holy Theatre and Spiritual Gift – Shimon Levy Chapter 13: St. Nina and the Abstract Machine: Aesthetics, Ontology, Immanence – David Fancy Part II: THE SILICONE DIARIES  Director’s Note – Brendan Healy The Silicone Diaries – Nina Arsenault Part III: The Photographs

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Judith Rudakoff is an award-winning dramaturg and coauthor of Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy. She is a Professor of Theatre at York University in Toronto, Canada.

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