Books by Peta Tait

In this work, Peta Tait's central argument is that performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity. She investigates how sexual difference impacts on the representations of emotions and develops an accumulative analysis of the meanings of emotions in 20th-century realist drama.

Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of high-wire acrobatics and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.