Making a spectacle :  feminist essays on contemporary women's theatre /  [electronic resource]  
edited and with an introduction by Lynda Hart ; contributors, Stephanie Arnold ... [et al.]. 
 - Ann Arbor :  University of Michigan Press,  c1989. 
 - 347 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Women and culture series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : performing feminism / Lynda Hart -- Mass culture and metaphors of menace in Joan Schenkar's plays / Vivian M. Patraka -- Body art : hunger and satiation in the plays of Tina Howe / Nancy Backes -- Music as metaphor : new plays of Black women / Margaret B. Wilkerson -- The madwoman in the spotlight : plays of Maria Irene Fornes / Gayle Austin -- Rejecting necrophilia : Ntozake Shange and the warrior re-visioned / Mary K. Deshazer -- Revisionary endings : Pam Gem's Aunt Mary and Camille / Susan Carlson -- Beth Henley : female quest and the family-play tradition / Jonnie Guerra -- "They don't even look like maids anymore" : Wendy Kesselman's My sister in this house / Lynda Hart. Marsha Norman's She-tragedies / Jenny S. Spencer -- Making magic public : Megan Terry's traveling family circus / Jan Breslauer and Helene Keyssar -- Dissolving the half shadows : Japanese American women playwrights / Stephanie Arnold -- Re-presenting women writers onstage : a retrospective to the present / Anita Plath Helle -- Toward a re-vision of Chicano theatre history : the women of El Teatro Campesino / Yolanda Broyles González -- Michelene Wandor : artist and ideologue / Janelle Reinelt -- (In)visible bodies in Churchill's theater / Elin Diamond -- Toward a butch-femme aesthetic / Sue-Ellen Case -- Mirrors moving beyond frames : Sandra Shotlander's Framework and Blind Salome / Rosemary Curb -- Bending gender to fit the canon : the politics of production / Jill Dolan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0472063898 (pbk. : alk. paper) :  $10.95 9780472063895 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0472093894 (hard : alk. paper) :  $29.50 9780472093892 (hard : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>88028831  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American drama--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Women and literature--History--English-speaking countries--20th century.<br/>American drama--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>English drama--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Feminist drama--History and criticism.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>Feminist theater.<br/>Théâtre américain--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle<br/>Théâtre anglais--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle<br/>Femmes dans la littérature.<br/>Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique.<br/>Écrits de femmes anglais--Histoire et critique.<br/>Critique féministe.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS338.W6  / M3 1989 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>812/.54/099287