Feminist Futures?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Feminist Futures and the Possibilities of ‘We’?

   • Elaine Aston, Geraldine Harris

   Pages 1-16

3. Navigating Postfeminism: Writing Out of the Box

   • Janelle Reinelt

   Pages 17-33

4. Citizenship and Gender in Asian-British Performance

   • Meenakshi Ponnuswami

   Pages 34-55

5. Curious Feminists

   • Leslie Hill, Helen Paris

   Pages 56-70

6. ‘Bad Girls’ and ‘Sick Boys’: New Women Playwrights and the Future of Feminism

   • Elaine Aston

   Pages 71-87

7. Predicting the Past: Histories and Futures in the Work of Women Directors

   • Aoife Monks

   Pages 88-104

8. The Screens of Time: Feminist Memories and Hopes

   • Sue-Ellen Case

   Pages 105-117

9. Africa Lives On in We: Histories and Futures of Black Women Artists

   • SuAndi

   Pages 118-129

10. The Politics of the Personal: Autobiography in Performance

    • Dee Heddon

    Pages 130-148

11. Performing in Glass: Reproduction, Technology, Performance and the Bio-Spectacular

    • Anna Furse

    Pages 149-168

12. ‘It is Good to Look at One’s Own Shadow’: A Women’s International Theatre Festival and Questions for International Feminism

    • Elaine Aston, Gerry Harris, Lena Šimić

    Pages 169-189

13. Gendering Space: The Desert and the Psyche in Contemporary Australian Theatre

    • Joanne Tompkins

    Pages 190-208

14. Angry Again? — New York Women Artists and Feminist Futures

    • Lenora Champagne, Clarinda Mac Low, Ruth Margraff, Fiona Templeton

    Pages 209-222

15. Back Matter

    Pages 223-243

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This work is a timely contribution to the debates surrounding feminism, theatre and performance. The excellent, cross-generational mix of theatre scholars and practitioners engaging in lively, cutting-edge debates on critical topics make this essential reading for students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies as well as Gender Studies.

• feminism
• festival
• gender
• gender studies
• theatre
• women

'[A] resolutely interrogatory body of essays... Feminist Futures? is an admirable inquiry, one question mark that inevitably raises many more.' - Laura Baggaley, Times Literary Supplement

'Feminist Futures?, like feminism itself, [is] a polyvocal interrogation of complex issues which can have no single articulation or solution, but in which many different voices speak of common concerns.' - Laura Baggaley, Times Literary Supplement

''For those interested in women and performance, it is an absolutely critical book.' - Erin Striff, Modern Drama

• Lancaster University, UK

  Elaine Aston

• University of Lancaster, UK

  Geraldine Harris

GERALDINE HARRIS is Professor of Theatre Studies at Lancaster University, UK. She has published widely on female performance and performativity including Staging Femininities (1999). Her more recent book Beyond Representation focuses on the politics and aesthetics of television drama. She also works as a devisor, writer, director and adapter.

ELAINE ASTON is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University, UK. She has published extensively on feminist theatre and performance, and her major works include An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre (1997) and Feminist Views on the English Stage (2003). With Geraldine Harris, she leads the AHRC funded research project on Women's Writing for Performance.

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