`one hell of a seminal read ... Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around gender and politics ... illuminating, insightful, perceptive.' - Women's Review
Author(s): Michelene Wandor
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1986
Language: English
Pages: 224
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Curtain-raiser......Page 9
Preface to the second edition......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction to the first edition......Page 15
1. Contexts......Page 18
2. Cross-dressing, sexualrepresentation and the sexualdivision of labour in theatre......Page 37
3 The first phase: 1969–73......Page 53
4 The second phase: 1973–7......Page 64
5. The third phase: from 1977......Page 82
6. The skilled process......Page 112
7. Finding a voice: women playwrightsand theatre......Page 140
8. Political dynamics: the feminisms......Page 149
9. Radical plays before 1968: the crisisof virility, the ‘feminine’ and the‘female’......Page 159
10. Men playwrights in the 1970s......Page 169
11. The fourth phase: womenplaywrights in the 1970s and early1980s......Page 180
12. Conclusions and the future......Page 210
Appendix: All Het Up in Bradford......Page 213
Notes......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 221
Index......Page 224
