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Intercultural communication and creative practice : resistance, convergence, and transformation / Laura Lengel -- Voicing the unspoken : "interculturally" connecting race, gender, and nation in women's creative practice / Lliane Loots -- Moving contexts : dance and difference in the Twenty-first century / Ann Cooper Albright -- Creation, recreation, and re-creating identities : performance and interculturality in a global context / Victoria Ann Newsom and Ako Inuzuka -- Dance of the red dog : na wahine kumu hula as protectors of Hawaiian culture / Fay Yokomizo Akindes -- Rudaali (the crier) : performing the music of mourning / Priya Kapoor -- Romanian dirge : women's ritualistic narratives of life and death as cultural constructions of identity in southeastern Europe / Noemi Marin -- The high cost of dancing : when the Indian women's movement went after the Devadasis / Teresa Hubel -- The construction of gender, genre, race, and identity in Barbadian female musicianship / Keri McClean -- Vietnamese women performing artists : making a song and dance of patriarchal submission / Ly Hoang VoDoan -- Marriage customs as creative practice among Yemeni women / E. Margaret Curtis-Howe -- Shifting the performative characteristics of opera and the status quo for women in China / Xiaoyu Xiao and D. Ray Heisey -- Corporeality and discipline of the performing body : representations of international ballet companies / Paige P. Edley and Ginger Bihn -- Man creates, woman plays : (re)claiming the creative process in ballet and opera / Margaret Lindley -- Managing creative practice : an international study of women in arts management / Sharon Foley -- Shifting matriarchal traditions to the mainstream : articulating gender, ethnicity, nation, and identity through creative practice / Laura Lengel

Embodied Activisms explores activists' use of their bodies to resist hegemonic power and promote justice. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts including police accountability activism and Black Lives Matter, and the most recent scholarship to interrogate activist engagement from the Americas to the Mediterranean.