Gender and feminist theatre reading list

Aston, Elaine, Feminist theatre practice: a handbook, London, Routledge, 1999

Baker, Roger, Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts, London:  Cassell, 1994

Banks, Morwenna, and Amanda Swift, The Joke’s On Us, Women in Comedy from Music Hall to the Present Day, London: Pandora, 1987

Bassnett, Susan, International Women's Experimental Theatre, Oxford, Berg Publishers Ltd, 1989

Case, Sue-Ellen, Feminism and Theatre, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988

Case, Sue-Ellen, ed., Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

Cima, Gay Gibson, Performing Women: Female Characters, Male playwrights and the Modern Stage, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993

Clum, John M., Something For the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture, New York: Palgrave, 2001

Cousin, Geraldine, Women in Dramatic Place and Time: Contemporary Female Characters on Stage, London: Routledge, 1996

Davis, Tracy C., Actresses As Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture, London: Routledge, 1991

Diamond, Elin, Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater, London: Routledge, 1997

Donkin, Ellen, Getting into the Act: Women playwrights in London 1776-1829, London:  Routledge, 1995

Ferris, Lesley, Acting Women: Images of Women in Theatre, Basingstoke: Macmillan Educational, 1990

Gale, Maggie, West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918-1962, London:  Routledge, 1996

Gale, Maggie B., and Gardner Vivien, Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000

Garber, Marjorie, Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety, London: Penguin, 1992

Glenn, Susan A., Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000

Goodman, Lizbeth, Contemporary Feminist Theatres: To Each Her Own, London: Routledge, 1993

Holledge, Julie, and Joanne Tompkins, Women’s Intercultural Performance, London: Routledge, 2000)

Jankowski, Theodora A., Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama, Urban and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992

Powell, Kerry, Women and Victorian Theatre, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Román, David, Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture & AIDS, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998

Senelick, Laurence, ed., Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts, Hanover and London, University Press of New England for Tufts University, 1992

Scolnikov, Hanna, Women's Theatrical Space, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Solomon, Alisa, and Minwalla, Framji,The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, New York: New York University Press, 2002

Solomon, Alisa, Re-dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender, London: Routledge, 1997

Tseëlon, Efrat, Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality, London: Routledge, 2001

Wandor, Michelene, Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender, London: Routledge, 2001