1st Edition
Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities
Introduction
Emily A. Rollie
1. The Enduring Legacy of Ntozake Shange and Adrienne Kennedy
Martine Kei Green-Rogers
2. Staging Queer Feminisms and Legacies in North America
Bess Rowen
3. Making Lesbian-Feminist Theatre: Lois Weaver, Tammy WhyNot, and the Legacy of Split Britches
Benjamin Gillespie
4. Harnessing the Political Power of Traditional Femininity in the 1980s: David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly and Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa
Rachel M.E. Wolfe
5. Staging Genders and Centering Women’s Voices in West African Theatres
Heather Jeanne Denyer and Ngozi Udengwu
6. Crossing Borders and Transforming Gender Identities: Mahesh Dattani and Manjula Padmanabhan
Jashodhara Sen
7. Staging Indigenous Women’s Voices, Histories, and Power
Yvette Nolan and Emily A. Rollie
8. Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare’s Sisters, Jogging, and Noura
Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson
9. Staging and Critiquing Masculinities: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman and Straight White Men
Ramón Esquivel
10. Refuting Narratives of Newness, Constructing Transgender Community
Nicolas Shannon Savard
Biography
Emily A. Rollie (PhD) is an associate professor of Theatre and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Central Washington University, USA.
