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