Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and ps

Actors and musicians call it "stage fright". Others may know it as "butterflies". No matter what you call it, the symptoms of performance anxiety are the same:

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public perfor

A lively, often amusing account of how men learn to perform like real men - and what happens when they don't. The author examines a range of texts and genre, TV