仪式与女性自我

Introduction
Woman-Conscious Drama: The Euvre of Norman, Wasserstein and Vogel
Literature Review
Ritual, Liminal Female Self and Performativity
Chapter One Destruction and Resurrection: Marginalized
Women Reborn from Death Ritual and Ritual Death
An Ex-con's Self-Reformation Through Rites of Affliction and Renaming
An Epileptic's Self-Empowerment by Performing Her Own Requiem Mass
A Whore's Elevation to Spiritual Guide in Initiating a Few Rituals
Chapter Two Compliance and Resistance: Educated Women
Redefined by (Mis)performing Rituals
Becoming “Uncommon Women" by Carnivalizing College Rituals
A Humanist's Conversion to Feminist by Participating in a CR Ritual
Three Sisters'Self-Renewal after a Jewish Ritual of Sabbath Sundown
Chapter Three Subversion and Reconstruction: Transgressive
Women Empowered Through Parodied Rituals
Negotiating Gender Roles in Playacting Rituals of “Dying and “Service
Identifying with the Other Through Fantasized “Rite of Loving Exorcism
Shifting Power Through Parodied Rites of Initiation and Courtship
Chapter Four The Performativity of Ritual and Identity in
Contemporary American Women's Drama
Ritual in the Women's Movement and the Feminist Ritual Theater
The Performativity of Ritual
The Performativity of Female Self
Conclusion
References