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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

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