Books in the Gender in Performance series

Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962.

A refreshing and vigorous account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional sucess in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

A fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. Schuler focuses upon the extraordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses.

Using historical evidence and personal accounts, Davis examines the reality of conditions for ordinary actresses, their working environments, employment patterns, and the reasons why acting continued a popular, though insecure, profession.

A major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides an analysis of the development of feminist theatre in different cultures and on several continents.

Looks at the way five of the comedies have been staged over the last 50 years, asking how gender politics affects the production of the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on stage.

Interviews with over 30 women provide first-hand accounts of the excitement, struggles and innovations of the dynamic feminist theatre of the 1970s and 80s. A compelling combination of historical survey, critique and celebration.

Katherine Liepe-Levinson has spent three years researching heterosexual female and male striptease in North America: this is the first full length theoretically informed study of striptease.

The Changing Room traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. This is the first-ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism.