TY - BOOK AU - Farfan, Penny, AU - Ferris,Lesley TI - Contemporary women playwrights: into the twenty-first century SN - 1137270780 AV - PN1650.W65 .C66 2013 U1 - 809.3 PY - 2013/// CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Drama KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I Histories; Feeling the Loss of Feminism : Sarah Kane's Blasted and an Experiential Genealogy of Contemporary Women's Playwriting; Elaine Alston --; Female Alliances and Women's Histories in Contemporary Mexican and Argentine Drama; Ana Elena Puga --; Chronic Desires : Theatre's Aching Lesbian Bodies; Sara Warner --; Women Playwrights in Egypt; Nehad Selaiha with Sarah Enany --; Black Women Playwrights Making History : Katori Hall's The Mountaintop; Soyica Diggs Colbert; Part II Conflicts. The; Gendered Terrain in Contemporary Theatre of War by Women; Sharon Friedman --; Enough! Women Playwrights Confront the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Amelia Howe Kritzer --; Women Playwrights in Post-Apartheid South Africa : Yael Farber, Lara Foot-Newton, and the Call for Ubuntu; Yvette Hutchinson --; Writing Across Our Sea of Islands : Contemporary Women Playwrights from Oceania; Diana Looser --; Ecodramaturgy in/and Contemporary Women's Playwriting; Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May; Part III Genres; Making the bones Sing : The Feminist History Play, 1976-2010; Katherine E. Kelly --; Performing (Our)Selves : The Role of the Actress in Theatre-History Plays by Women; Lesley Ferris and Melissa Lee --; Historical Landscapes in Contemporary Plays by Canadian Women; Penny Farfan -; Asian American Women Playwrights and the Dilemma of the Identity Play : Staging Heterotopic Subjectivities; Esther Kim Lee --; Deb Margolin, Robbie McCauley, Peggy Shaw : Affect and Performance; Elin Diamond ER -