Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Fiona Shaw: Foreword -- Lizbeth Goodman: Introduction: Gender in Performance -- Part One The history of women in theatre -- 1 Katharine Cockin: Introduction to Part One -- 2 Jane de Gay: Naming Names: An Overview of Women in Theatre, 1500-1900 -- 3 Lisa Jardine: Unpicking the Tapestry: The Scholar of Women's History as Penelope Among Her Suitors -- 4 Elaine Aston: Finding a Tradition: Feminism and theatre History -- 5 Penny Gay: The History of Shakespeare's Unruly Women -- 6 Jean E. Howard: Cross-Dressing, the Theatre and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England -- Part Two Women taking the stage: The history of women in theatre 1660-1960 -- 7 Gerry Harris: Introduction to Part Two -- 8 Elizabeth Howe: English Actresses in Social Context: Sex and Violence -- 9 Ellen Donkin: Occupational Hazards: Women Playwrights In London, 1660-1800 -- 10 Tracy C. Davis: The Social Dynamic and 'Respectability -- 11 Viv Gardner: The New Woman in the New Theatre -- 12 Maggie B. Gale: A Need for Reappraisal: Women Playwrights on the London Stage, 1918-58 -- Part Three The changing status of women in theatre -- 13 Susan Bassnett: Introduction to Part Three -- 14 Julie Holledge: Innocent Flowers No More: The Changing Status of Women in Theatre -- 15 Caroline Gardiner: What Share of the Cake? The Employment of Women in the English Theatre (1987) -- 16 Jennie Long: What Share of the Cake Now? The Employment of Women in the English Theatre (1994) -- 17 Sarah Werner: Notes on Sharing the Cake -- 18 Linda Fitzsimmons: Archiving, Documenting and Teaching Women's Theatre Work -- 19 Alison Oddey: Devising (Women's) Theatre as Meeting the Needs of Changing Times -- 20 Carole Woddis: Back to the Future: A View From 1997.

Part Four Feminist approaches to gender in performance -- 21 Susan Melrose: Introduction to Part Four -- 22 Gayle Austin: Feminist Theories: Paying Attention to Women -- 23 Sue-Ellen Case: Towards a New Poetics -- 24 Barbara Smith: Toward a Black Feminist Criticism -- 25 Sandra L. Richards: Writing the Absent Potential: Drama, Performance and The Canon of African-American Literature -- Part Five Gendering the bodies of performance and criticism -- 26 Lesley Ferris: Introduction to Part Five: Cross-Dressing and Women's Theatre -- 27 Michelene Wandor: Cross-Dressing, Sexual Representation and the Sexual Division of Labour in Theatre -- 28 Marjorie Garber: Dress Codes, or the Theatricality of Difference -- 29 Gail Finney: Demythologizing the Femme Fatale: Wilde's Salome -- Part Six Comparative perspectives and cultures -- 30 Claire MacDonald: Introduction to Part Six -- 31 Lizbeth Goodman: British Feminist Theatres: to Each Her Own -- 32 Charlotte Canning: The Legacies of Feminist Theatres in the Usa -- 33 Kirsten F. Nigro: Inventions and Transgressions: A Fractured Narrative on Feminist Theatre in Mexico -- 34 Vera Shamina: Women in Russian Theatre -- 35 Miki Flockemann: Women, Feminism and South African Theatre -- 36 Peta Tait: Feminism in Australian Theatre -- Part Seven Feminisms, sexualities, spaces and forms -- 37 Janet Adshead-Lansdale: Introduction to Part Seven -- 38 Jeanie K. Forte: Women's Performance Art: Feminism and Postmodernism -- 39 Janet Wolff: Dance Criticism: Feminism, Theory and Choreography -- 40 Alexandra Carter: Feminist Strategies for the Study of Dance -- 41 Mandakranta Bose: Gender and Performance: Classical Indian Dancing -- 42 Moe Meyer: Reclaiming the Discourse of Camp -- 43 Mick Wallis: Performing Sexuality in Psychic Space -- Part Eight Reception and reviewing -- 44 Susan Bennett: Introduction to Part Eight.

45 Laura Mulvey: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema -- 46 Teresa de Lauretis: Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation -- 47 Judith Butler: From: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' -- 48 Jill Dolan: The Discourse of Feminisms: The Spectator and Representation -- 49 Stephen Regan: Reception Theory, Gender and Performance -- 50 Susan Kozel: Multi-Medea: Feminist Performance Using Multimedia Technologies -- Lois Weaver: Afterword -- Bibliography and suggested further reading -- Index.