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Feminist Futures?

Theatre, Performance, Theory

Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris

Edited by

Feminist Futures?

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Performance Interventions

Series Editors: Elaine Aston, University of Lancaster, and Bryan Reynolds,

University of California, Irvine

Performance Interventions is a series of monographs and essay collections on

theatre, performance, and visual culture that share an underlying commitment

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ance communities, educational institutions, and academic disciplines.

Titles include:

Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner (editors)

AGAINST THEATRE

Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage

Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris (editors)

FEMINIST FUTURES?

Theatre, Performance, Theory

Leslie Hill and Helen Paris

PERFORMANCE AND PLACE

Forthcoming titles:

Lynette Goddard

STAGING BLACK FEMINISMS

Identity, Politics, Performance

Amelia M. Kritzer

POLITICAL THEATRE IN POST-THATCHER BRITAIN

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Feminist Futures?

Theatre, Performance, Theory

Edited by

Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris

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Feminist futures? : theatre, performance, theory / edited by Elaine Aston

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1. Women in the theater. 2. Feminist theater. 3. Feminist drama,

English—History and criticism. I. Aston, Elaine. II. Harris, Geraldine

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Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Notes on Contributors x

1 Feminist Futures and the Possibilities of ‘We’? 1

Elaine Aston and Geraldine (Gerry) Harris

2 Navigating Postfeminism: Writing Out of the Box 17

Janelle Reinelt

3 Citizenship and Gender in Asian-British Performance 34

Meenakshi Ponnuswami

4 Curious Feminists 56

Leslie Hill and Helen Paris

5 ‘Bad Girls’ and ‘Sick Boys’: New Women Playwrights

and the Future of Feminism 71

Elaine Aston

6 Predicting the Past: Histories and Futures in the Work

of Women Directors 88

Aoife Monks

7 The Screens of Time: Feminist Memories and Hopes 105

Sue-Ellen Case

8 Africa Lives On in We: Histories and Futures of Black

Women Artists 118

SuAndi

9 The Politics of the Personal: Autobiography

in Performance 130

Dee Heddon

10 Performing in Glass: Reproduction, Technology,

Performance and the Bio-Spectacular 149

Anna Furse

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11 ‘It is Good to Look at One’s Own Shadow’: A Women’s

International Theatre Festival and Questions for

International Feminism 169

Elaine Aston, Gerry Harris and Lena Šimie

12 Gendering Space: The Desert and the Psyche in

Contemporary Australian Theatre 190

Joanne Tompkins

13 Angry Again? – New York Women Artists and

Feminist Futures 209

Lenora Champagne, Clarinda Mac Low, Ruth Margraff

and Fiona Templeton

Bibliography 223

Index 234

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Acknowledgements

This collection would not have been possible without the funding

assistance of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the

inspiration from artists and participants in our Women’s Writing for

Performance project. A big thank you to our administrator Susie Wood

for her assistance and her patience.

A special note of thanks to all the scholars and practitioners who got

involved in and contributed to this project – especially artists Lenora

Champagne, Clarinda Mac Low, Ruth Margraff and Fiona Templeton,

who turned out on a freezing-cold Sunday afternoon in New York to

talk ‘feminist futures’.

Also thanks to all of our colleagues in Theatre Studies and the Nuffield

Theatre and to Mike Bowen of the Lancaster TV unit for his patience

and good humour in helping with audio technology.

Finally: for Gerry, as ever, thanks to Colin Knapp – (for the sentimental,

which excludes Colin himself – see Jacques Brel, La chanson des vieux

amants). For Elaine – a thank you to my mother June for her continued

love and support, and to Maggie and Daniel for surviving burnt dinners

and office days, but without whom nothing would make any sense

at all.

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