Gender (and its experiments) and performance are merely another metaphor for the unknown (Fiona Shaw in Goodman and de Gay (eds) 1998, xxv). Discuss.

Gender and performance are both terms that are being defined and redefined constantly. Talking about them collectively broadens the scope of definition. This then suggests that they are indeed merely another metaphor for the unknown. If there is no clear definition that may be challenged then it is correct to mark that term as unknown. Lizbeth Goodman (1993) writes that the most difficult thing about writing on feminist theatres is reaching a definition, or set of definitions, of the term feminist with which both theorists and practitioners might agree….(short extract)

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