Erasure -- The woman thing: issues and advances for women in Southeast Asian traditions / Kathy Foley, University of California Santa cruz -- Women in a man's world: gender and power in Japanese Noh theatre / Barbara Geilhorn, Manchester University -- "Just like a woman": female impersonation, gender construction and role playing in Begum Barve / Angelie Multani, IIT Delhi, India -- Feminist Asian cosmopolitanism in Singapore tango clubs / Shzr Ee Tan, Royal Holloway, University of London -- Stars on the rise: the Jingju actresses in Republican China / Xing Fan, University of Toronto -- Intervention -- Between roars and tears: towards the female Kathakali / Arya Madhavan, University of Lincoln -- "Ruined by several actresses who added lewd elements":the popularity of emerging actresses in Chinese Jingju (Beijing opera) and the censorship of two plays / Siyuan Liu, University of British Columbia -- Theatre of Kishida Rio: towards re-signification of "home" for women in Asia / Nobuko Anan, Birkbeck University of London -- Foreign female interventions in traditional Asian arts: Rebecca Teele and Cristina Formaggia -- Margaret Coldiron, East 15 Acting School, University of Essex -- An unexpected voice: performance, gender, and protecting tradition in Korean mask dance dramas / CedarBough T. Saeji, University of British Columbia -- Reconstruction -- Rasa trialogue: the politics of the female body in Asian performance / Sreenath Nair, University of Lincoln -- Nangiar Kuthu: interference, intervention and inheritance / Diane Daugherty, independent scholar -- Women in British Asian theatre / Graham Ley, University of Exeter