Introduction / Alissa Mello and Claudia Orenstein, 1
I. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN IN PUPPET THEATRE
1 The Monster and the Corpse: Puppetry and the Uncanniness of Gender Performance / Laura Purcell-Gates, 19
2 Modes of Pleasure: Contemporary Feminist Erotic Puppet Theatre from Istanbul with Love / Deniz Basar, 35
3 Women, Marriage, and Femininities: Kkokdu Gaksi Geori (or the "Love Triangle" Scene) in the Korean Traditional Puppet Play / Kyounghye Kwon, 50
4 Erasure, Intervention, and Reconstruction: Imagining Women Puppeteers in Myanmar / Jennifer Goodlander, 66
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, 85
6 Class, Gender, and Ritual Puppetry: Negotiating Revival for the Hakomawashi Puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan / Claudia Orenstein, 101
7 Whispering Women, Shouting Puppets: Women and Puppetry in Iran / Salma Mohseni Ardehali, 115
8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at Suffrage Fairs and Exhibitions in Edwardian London / Naomi Paxton, 126
III. WOMEN PRACTITIONERS SPEAK
9 Women and Objects / Ana Alvarado, 143
10 An Expanded Language / Yngvild Aspeli, 150
11 My Career as a Puppeteer in Taiwan / Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu, 157
12 Bricolages / Theodora Skipitares, 165
13 Kenyan Women in Puppet Theater / Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka, 173
14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: The Journey of Making Contemporary Puppet Theatre Come Alive in The Land of Java / Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani, 179
15 A Fragile Form / Janni Younge, 189