The Treatment of Rape in Women's Performance Art and Sarah Kane's 'Blasted'.

This was a Master's thesis, produced as part of the MA in Writing for Performance course at the University of Huddersfield, 2007-8. the dissertation was submitted and passed in April 2008, and was produced under Dr Linda Taylor. It situates Sarah Kane's work in a context and heritage of feminist performance art from the 1950s onwards. It discusses how performance artists such as Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, Suzanne Lacy, Judy Chicago, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Valerie Export, the Womanhouse project, Tracey Emin, Karen Finley and Jenny Holzer worked with the theme of rape, before analysing how Sarah Kane treated this in her 1995 play 'Blasted'.