Upp till camp, systrar! Om motstånd och teater

Abstract

This essay takes as its starting point the theatre's great, hut seldom fully realized, subversive potential, and introduces four possible feminist strategies of resistance. These strategies have been chosen because they combine distance with irony as well as an antirealistic distance-creating stance. The first strategy concerns gender mobility such as crossdressing female to male and the flirtation between women, the second is camp, exemplified by Sue-Ellen Case s concept lesbian camp. The t h i r d strategy is brutality f o u n d in the Austrian dramatist Elf r i e d e J e l i n e k s feminist aestetics. Finally, an against-the-current reading of Wagner's Lohengrin is discussed.