A sourcebook of feminist theatre and performance : on and beyond the stage / edited by Carol Martin.

Part I: History. Art versus business: the role of women in American theatre / Helen Krich Chinoy -- Women for women / Charlotte Rea -- The WOW cafe / Alisa Solomon -- Notes on lesbian theatre / Emily L. Sisley -- Women at the helm: in leadership posts once reserved for men, they're challenging our assumptions about sex and power / Misha Berson -- Part II: Theory. Bearing witness: Anna Deavere Smith from community to theatre to mass media / Carol Martin -- In defense of the discourse: materialist feminism, postmodernism, poststructuralism ... and theory / Jill Dolan -- Motherhood according to Karen Finley: The Theory of total blame / Lynda Hart -- Brechtian theory/feminist theory: toward a gestic feminist criticism / Elin Diamond -- Reading past the heterosexual imperative: Dress suits to hire / Kate Davy -- Feminist theory, poststructuralism, and performance / Peggy Phelan -- Part III: Interviews. Anna Deavere Smith: the word becomes you / Carol Martin -- Robbie McCauley: Obsessing in public / Vivian Patraka -- Holly Hughes: polymorphous perversity and the lesbian scientist / Rebecca Schneider -- Karen Finley: a constant state of becoming / Richard Schechner -- Part IV: Texts. Dress suits to hire / Holly Hughes, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw -- The Constant state of desire / Karen Finley

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