Feminist Futures?

GERALDINE HARRIS is Professor of Theatre Studies at Lancaster University, UK. She has published widely on female performance and performativity including Staging Femininities (1999). Her more recent book Beyond Representation focuses on the politics and aesthetics of television drama. She also works as a devisor, writer, director and adapter. ELAINE ASTON is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University, UK. She has published extensively on feminist theatre and performance, and her major works include An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre (1997) and Feminist Views on the English Stage (2003). With Geraldine Harris, she leads the AHRC funded research project on Women's Writing for Performance.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Feminist Futures and the Possibilities of 'We'?; G.Harris & E.Aston Navigating Postfeminism: Writing Out of the Box; J.Reinelt Citizenship and Gender in Asian British Performance; M.Ponnuswaimi Curious Feminists; L.Hill & H.Paris 'Bad Girls' and 'Sick Boys': New Women Playwrights and the Future of Feminism; E.Aston Predicting the Past: Histories and Futures in the Work of Women Directors; A.Monks The Screens of Time: Feminist Memories and Hopes; S.Case Africa Lives on in We: Histories and Futures in the Work of Women Directors; SuAndi The Politics of the Personal: Autobiography in Performance; D.Heddon Performing in Glass: Reproduction, Technology, Performance and the Bio-spectacular; A.Furse 'It is Good to Look at One's Own Shadow': A Woman's International Theatre Festival and Questions for International Feminism; E.Aston , G.Harris & L.Simic Gendering Space: The Desert and the Psyche in Contemporary Australian Theatre; J.Tompkins Angry Again? - New York Women Artists and Feminist Futures; L.Champagne , C.Mac Low R.Margraff & F.Templeton Bibliography Index