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Peta Tait Peta Tait i(A2372 works by)
Born: Established: 1953 ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon Feminist Ecologies : Changing Environments in the Anthropocene Lara Stevens (editor), Peta Tait (editor), Denise Varney (editor), Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 13838254 2017 anthology criticism

'This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women’s issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes, the relational identities of feminists and ecofeminists, and the concept of ecofeminism as a rallying point for environmental feminism. The volume defines ecofeminism as a multidisciplinary project and will appeal to readers working within the field of Environmental Humanities.'  (Publication summary)

1 Eleanor Roosevelt : Theatrical Emotion for Political Benefit Peta Tait , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 71 2017; (p. 137-156)

'This article explores the performance of emotions in relation to gender identity in the fulfilment of public duties in the modernist era. It explains how emotions were knowingly expressed and evoked in public appearances by Eleanor Roosevelt (Eleanor) to political purpose. The article outlines the formal and informal connections between the Americans, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Australians, Herbert and Mary Alice (Mary Alice) Evatt, developed in the play Eleanor and Mary Alice and how these influenced national alliances in wartime and the subsequent United Nations' refugee policies. The article further explains how gendered attitudes to emotion both facilitated these processes as it blinkered recognition of their vital function and obscured the contributions of Eleanor and Mary Alice. Cast in a motherly, caring role as the President's wife, Eleanor contradictorily showed considerable courage - as did Mary Alice - as well as leadership. 

'It is argued that the consideration of emotions in modernist politics and within its gendered patterns can be framed as an identifiable theatrical process and by utilising the idea of substitution. While these historical events proved foundational to subsequent alliances between Australia and the United States, the emotional dynamics surrounding political events remain implicit. Yet such examples of performed emotion as a controlled condition offer crucial insights about political decision-making.' (Publication abstract)

1 Review : Circus and Stage : The Theatrical Adventures of Rose Edouin and G.B.W. Lewis Peta Tait , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 38 no. 3 2014; (p. 374-376)

— Review of Circus and Stage : The Theatrical Adventures of Rose Edouin and G.B.W. Lewis Mimi Colligan , 2013 single work biography
1 1 y separately published work icon Eleanor and Mary Alice Peta Tait , 2014 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2018 12750906 2014 single work drama

'Eleanor and Mary Alice is about personal meetings between Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Alice Evatt, and with short comments by Churchill, Roosevelt and Herbert Evatt. The lives of these two influential women are framed by politics, war, refugees, modernist art and especially Moya Dyring’s painting. As Eleanor tours Australia in 1943, after flying across the Japanese patrolled Pacific, she seeks support to fly on to the battlefront. The two women meet again in Paris in 1948 when Mary Alice tries to overcome Evatt’s annoyance with Eleanor, and they discuss Dyring’s art and the end of her marriage to artist, Sam Atyeo, who is Evatt’s secretary.

'In the background Evatt is elected UN General Assembly President and Eleanor is Chair the UN Human Rights Committee developing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ' (Production summary)

1 Caught : Sentimental, Decorative Kangaroo Identities in Popular Culture Peta Tait , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Captured : The Animal within Culture 2013; (p. 175-194)
1 A Great Show-Family Business : Circus and Edgley International Rosemary Farrell , Peta Tait , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 60 2012; (p. 157-169)
'This article describes the history of the Edgley family business in relation to its circus productions and the contribution of key female family members. Michael Edgley International (Edgley's) is an Australian entertainment company that toured productions to large audiences throughout Australasia, Asia, South Africa and the USA. It toured up to six theatre, dance and other live entertainments annually for over fifty years, which attests to the company's success as a business. The company became known in Australia for its regular Moscow Circus productions after 1965. Edgley's links to circus, however, provide an additional perspective on a family business - even on performance - because family companies have been central to the historical development of Australian circus.' Rosemary Farrell and Peta Tait.
1 Untitled Peta Tait , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 177-178)

— Review of Make It Australian: The Australian Performing Group, the Pram Factory and New Wave Theatre Gabrielle Wolf , 2008 single work criticism
1 Embodying Love : Mother Meets Daughter in Theatre for Cultural Exchange Peta Tait , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 49 2006; (p. 32-39)
1 Untitled Peta Tait , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 49 2006; (p. 114-117)

— Review of The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , Maryrose Casey , Laura Ginters , 2005 selected work criticism
1 Mixing with Miko Peta Tait , 2003 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 253 2003; (p. 5)
1 Queer Circus Bodies in Rock 'n' Roll Circus's The Dark and Club Swing's Razor Baby Peta Tait , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Siting the Other : Re-Visions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama 2001; (p. 115-125)
Discusses queer texts in theatre and the emerging genre of new circus /physical theatre.
1 1 y separately published work icon Body Show/s : Australian Viewings of Live Performance Body Shows Peta Tait (editor), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2000 Z1042836 2000 single work criticism
1 Appearing in Pieces Peta Tait , 1999 single work drama
— Appears in: Performing the UnNameable : An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts 1999; (p. 87-92)
1 Performing Sexed Bodies in Physical Theatre Peta Tait , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 213-228)
1 'Another Way of Looking at the World' : Andrea Lemon and Sarah Cathcart Peta Tait (interviewer), 1997 single work interview
— Appears in: Performing Women/ Performing Feminisms : Interviews with International Women Playwrights 1997; (p. 129-133)
1 2 y separately published work icon Australian Women's Drama : Texts and Feminisms Peta Tait (editor), Elizabeth Schafer (editor), Paddington : Currency Press , 1997 Z69253 1997 anthology drama (taught in 6 units)
1 y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies Women Making Theatre For Social Change; ADS no. 27 October Peta Tait (editor), Julie Holledge (editor), Tony Mitchell (editor), 1995 Z592793 1995 periodical issue
1 3 y separately published work icon Converging Realities : Feminism in Australian Theatre Peta Tait (editor), Paddington : Currency Press Artmoves , 1994 Z486119 1994 anthology criticism
1 2 y separately published work icon Original Women's Theatre : The Melbourne Women's Theatre Group 1974-77 Peta Tait , Melbourne : Artmoves , 1993 Z377940 1993 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Australian Playwrights Australian Playwrights : A Series of Monographs and Video Programmes Peta Tait (editor), Rodopi (publisher), 1987 Amsterdam : Rodopi , 1987- Z1322500 1987 series - publisher

'The aims of the series are:
i) to contribute to the interpretation, critical analysis, promotion, and wider understanding of Australian drama in Australia and overseas;
ii) to pursue a scholarly investigation through monographs which could include either an overview of a particular playwright and a critical analysis of his/her plays or a study of a grouping in drama and theatre including writers for performance within a unifying framework;
iii) to illustrate and personalise the study of drama and theatre within Australia and overseas, especially for students.

'Each monograph provides an in-depth study aimed at furthering knowledge of Australian drama and therefore Australian culture with reference to primary and secondary sources.'

Source: Rodopi website, http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=AP
Sighted07/11/2006

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