Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault

Trans(per)Forming Nina ArsenaultTransgendered playwright, performer, columnist and sex worker Nina Arsenault has had sixty plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In this book, a diverse group of contributors (including Arsenault) offers an exploration of beauty, image and the notion of queerness through the lens of Arsenault's personal brand of performance art.

beginning with her emergence as a teenage star in Victor Erice’s El Sur (1983)

drop the debt

based on significant new material on Ruskin’s Guild of St George

A wide-ranging collection of specially commissioned essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts

drawing together a variety of international voices to create a fragmented portrait of the artist

Drawing on a rich body of theoretical literature and manuscript sources

This is a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the present day

the authors draw on a wide range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations and the extent of women’s social and commercial activities

Focusing on design education

Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research

but also with her partner

she considers public debates about succession