List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword: Jane Taylor Acknowledgments Introduction: Alissa Mello and Claudia Orenstein Part I: Critical Perspectives on Women in Puppet Theatre Chapter 1 The Monster and the Corpse: Puppetry and the Uncanniness of Gender Performance Laura Purcell-Gates Chapter 2 Modes of Pleasure: Contemporary Feminist Erotic Puppet Theatre from istanbul with Love Deniz Basar Chapter 3 Women, Marriage, and Femininities: Kkokdu Gaksi Geori (or the "Love Triangle" Scene) in the Korean Traditional Puppet Play Kyounghye Kwon Chapter 4 Erasure, Intervention, and Reconstruction: Imagining Women Puppeteers in Myanmar Jennifer Goodlander Part II: Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations Chapter 5 Werewere Liking, Vicky Tsikplonou, and Adama Lucie Bacco: Female Artists Appropriating Puppetry to Empower Women in West Africa Heather Jeanne Denyer Chapter 6 Class, Gender, and Ritual Puppetry: Negotiating Revival for the Hakomawashi Puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan Claudia Orenstein Chapter 7 Whispering Women, Shouting Puppets: Women and Puppetry in Iran Salma Mohseni Ardehali Chapter 8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at Suffrage Fairs and Exhibitions in Edwardian London Naomi Paxton Part III: Women Practitioners Speak Chapter 9 Women and Objects Ana Alvarado Chapter 10 An Expanded Language Yngvild Aspeli Chapter 11 My Career as a Puppeteer in Taiwan Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu Chapter 12 Bricolages Theodora Skipitares Chapter 13 Kenyan Women in Puppet Theater Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka Chapter 14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: The Journey of Making Contemporary Puppet Theatre Come Alive in The Land of Java Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani Chapter 15 A Fragile Form Janni Younge Index rom istanbul with Love Deniz Basar Chapter 3 Women, Marriage, and Femininities: Kkokdu Gaksi Geori (or the "Love Triangle" Scene) in the Korean Traditional Puppet Play Kyounghye Kwon Chapter 4 Erasure, Intervention, and Reconstruction: Imagining Women Puppeteers in Myanmar Jennifer Goodlander Part II: Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations Chapter 5 Werewere Liking, Vicky Tsikplonou, and Adama Lucie Bacco: Female Artists Appropriating Puppetry to Empower Women in West Africa Heather Jeanne Denyer Chapter 6 Class, Gender, and Ritual Puppetry: Negotiating Revival for the Hakomawashi Puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan Claudia Orenstein Chapter 7 Whispering Women, Shouting Puppets: Women and Puppetry in Iran Salma Mohseni Ardehali Chapter 8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at Suffrage Fairs and Exhibitions in Edwardian London Naomi Paxton Part III: Women Practitioners Speak Chapter 9 Women and Objects Ana Alvarado Chapter 10 An Expanded Language Yngvild Aspeli Chapter 11 My Career as a Puppeteer in Taiwan Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu Chapter 12 Bricolages Theodora Skipitares Chapter 13 Kenyan Women in Puppet Theater Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka Chapter 14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: The Journey of Making Contemporary Puppet Theatre Come Alive in The Land of Java Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani Chapter 15 A Fragile Form Janni Younge Index mp;lt;P>Class, Gender, and Ritual Puppetry: Negotiating Revival for the Hakomawashi Puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan Claudia Orenstein Chapter 7 Whispering Women, Shouting Puppets: Women and Puppetry in Iran Salma Mohseni Ardehali Chapter 8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at Suffrage Fairs and Exhibitions in Edwardian London Naomi Paxton Part III: Women Practitioners Speak Chapter 9 Women and Objects Ana Alvarado Chapter 10 An Expanded Language Yngvild Aspeli Chapter 11 My Career as a Puppeteer in Taiwan Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu Chapter 12 Bricolages Theodora Skipitares Chapter 13 Kenyan Women in Puppet Theater Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka Chapter 14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: The Journey of Making Contemporary Puppet Theatre Come Alive in The Land of Java Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani Chapter 15 A Fragile Form Janni Younge Index /P> Chapter 11 My Career as a Puppeteer in Taiwan Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu Chapter 12 Bricolages Theodora Skipitares Chapter 13 Kenyan Women in Puppet Theater Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka Chapter 14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: The Journey of Making Contemporary Puppet Theatre Come Alive in The Land of Java Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani Chapter 15 A Fragile Form Janni Younge Index.