Aston Elaine. Feminist views on the English stage. Women playwrights, 1990-2000

Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 250 p.A feminist view on the 1990s.
‘Boys in trouble’: a backlash 1990s.
‘Boys’ on television, film and stage.
Feminist directions in the 1990s.
Feminist structures of feeling.
Theatre contexts.
The Sphinx Theatre Company: (re)-presenting women writers.
Telling feminist tales: Caryl Churchill.
Top Girls: from 1982 to 1991.
The Skriker.
‘The Mother of Invention’: Blue Heart.
Far Away.
Saying no to Daddy: child sexual abuse, the ‘big hysteria’.
From silence to silence: child sexual abuse 1970s–1990s.
Sarah Daniels.
Beside Herself.
Head-Rot Holiday and The Madness of Esme and Shaz.
Refiguring Freud.
Augustine (Big Hysteria), Anna Furse.
Male hysteria.
Abuse as cycle.
Easy Access (for the Boys), Claire Dowie.
Frozen, Bryony Lavery.
From anus to vagina.
The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler.
Girl power, the new feminism?.
Feminism: ‘an adventure story’ for girls.
‘Essex girl’: Rebecca Prichard.
‘Seeing red’: Judy Upton.
Girl gangs:
Ashes and Sand, Judy Upton.
Yard Gal, Rebecca Prichard.
Sarah Kane: the ‘bad girl of our stage’?.
Blasted: ‘perceptual explosion’.
Cleansed: gender punishment.
Crave: ‘not what I meant at all’.
Performing identities.
Bryony Lavery: another love story.
Her Aching Heart.
Nothing Compares to You.
A Wedding Story.
Phyllis Nagy: performing gender trouble.
Weldon Rising.
Butterfly Kiss and Disappeared.
The Strip and Never Land.
Feminist connections to a multicultural ‘scene’.
‘Breaking Down the Door’: black women playwrights in the 1990s.
Talking in Tongues, Winsome Pinnock.
Mules, Winsome Pinnock.
Tamasha.
Women of The Dust and A Yearning.
East is East.
Theatre as cultural weapon.
The Story of M, SuAndi.
Goliath, adaptation Bryony Lavery.
Feminism past, and future?.
Timberlake.
Wertenbaker.
Abel’s Sister: a feminist past.
The Break of Day: a feminist future?
The Break of Day and the critics.
Feminist connections: Shang-A-Lang, Catherine Johnson and The Positive Hour, April.
de Angelis.
Adventures for the boys.
After Darwin.
Negotiating masculinities.
Theatre: a space to imagine.
Tales for the twenty-first century: final reflections.
Notes.